Our cells have a housekeeping service called autophagy that cleans up dysfunctional cellular components - essential to maintain cellular health.This cell-maintenance process may have an answer to schizophrenia.Researchers have discovered that autophagy is reduced in the brains of schizophrenic patients which may lead them to develop new diagnostic tests and drug treatments for the disease.'By identifying and targeting the proteins known to be involved in the process we may be able to diagnose and treat the disease in new and more effective ways' said Illana Gozes director of Adams Super Centre for Brain Studies at Sackler Faculty of Medicine in
