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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 26.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2011 Mar;14(3):285–293. doi: 10.1038/nn.2741

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Model of molecular mechanisms contributing to spine dysfunction in schizophrenia. Molecules genetically or neuropathologically implicated in schizophrenia interact with regulators of spine plasticity and maintenance. Their disruption may lead to exaggerated spine loss and loss of connectivity with axons (blue lines) in late adolescence or early adulthood.