Stress gene hyperactivity linked to schizophrenia in University of Sydney study

People with schizophrenia experience heightened stress responses that damage brain circuits over time, increasing vulnerability to severe psychiatric symptoms and functional impairment.

At the University of Sydney, researchers have traced a thread of molecular misfortune running through the brains of people with schizophrenia — a stress-regulating gene left unguarded, its silencing markers absent, its activity unchecked. The discovery, born from an international collaboration and published in the American Journal of Psychiatry, suggests that schizophrenia is not merely a disorder of perception or thought, but of a body perpetually braced for crisis. In naming the mechanism, science moves one step closer to addressing the wound rather than only tending its symptoms.

Stress gene hyperactivity linked to schizophrenia in University of Sydney study

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