Identify the role of glutamate in schizophrenia.
A) Dopamine enhances the functioning of glutamate and produces disturbances as seen in schizophrenia.
B) Higher concentrations of glutamate are present in areas of the brains of people with schizophrenia that are crucial to attention and memory.
C) Glutamate is responsible for the significant overall brain size as well as the contracted brain ventricles (butterfly shapes) in schizophrenics.
D) An excess of glutamate in the limbic structures is responsible for poor selective attention, cognitive control, and working memory in schizophrenics.
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