A recent study has shown a link between weak activity in a specific range of brain waves and three manifestations associated with schizophrenia: difficulty linking the timing of sounds and images, speech disorders, and increased symptom severity, which may help understand the shared neural mechanisms behind these manifestations.
McGill University in Canada stated in a statement published on its website yesterday Saturday that a research team from the university, in collaboration with researchers from the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, the University of Montreal, the Research Centre of the Montreal University Health Centre, and the Douglas Research Centre, observed a link between weak activity in the "beta" range of brain waves and several symptoms associated with schizophrenia.
The researchers used magnetoencephalography to monitor neural activity in participants while performing tasks that test their ability to link the timing of images and sounds, and they also analyzed speech samples to assess indicators of speech disorders. The results showed that people with schizophrenia recorded weaker and slower activity in the "beta" range compared to participants from the healthy group.
The researchers pointed out that the study is preliminary due to the limited number of participants, and verifying these results requires conducting additional studies on larger groups. Future research may contribute to evaluating the possibility of benefiting from this brain signal in understanding and monitoring symptoms, but the current results are not sufficient to adopt it as a tool for diagnosing schizophrenia.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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