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Schizophrenia and an overactive default network

Schizophrenia and an overactive default network

Some research suggests that people with [schizophrenia] have a particular network in their brains that is too noisy. Alan Anticevic, a research scientist at Yale University, said that the better people can suppress their default network, the more they can focus on a demanding task. While even some people without mental illness have trouble accomplishing this switch, those with schizophrenia seem to have a particularly difficult time, he said