How do the hundreds of genetic risk-factors for #Schizophrenia actually lead to disease? New work medrxiv.org/content/10.110… from @manoliskellis illuminates the #SingleCell landscape of #Brains from patients with #Schizophrenia and their healthy counterparts🔬🧠🧵1/10 Combining single-nuclear RNA-Seq @10xGenomics, barcode #ing, and multi-level cell-state decomposition, first author Brad Ruzicka et al. identify 20 cell types in the prefrontal cortex of 24 patients with #Schizophrenia and 24 controls 2/10

Why is it becoming harder to #remember things you have recently read? New work nature.com/articles/s4158… out in @nature from Anthony Wagner's group @Stanford explore how multi-media #multitasking impacts a specific axis of #attention that in turn, impacts our #memory📱🧠🧵1/11 When we're reading a book and simultaneously checking our #twitter or #finsta feeds, we're not actually multitasking - we're task-switching! We switch our focus from one goal to another, interrupting our train of thought and scattering our #attention 2/11