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Retinal changes may serve as measures of brain pathology in schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is associated with structural and functional alterations of the visual system, including specific structural changes in the eye.

Tracking such changes may provide new measures of risk for, and progression of the disease, according to a literature review published online in the journal Schizophrenia Research: Cognition, authored by researchers at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai and Rutgers University.