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Which of the Following Statements Is True of the Brain

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Which of the following statements is true of the brain structure in a person with schizophrenia?


A) Genetic studies indicate that people who do not have a gene that is tagged for excessive pruning are more likely to develop schizophre­nia.
B) In people with schizophrenia, neural networks are more clustered in close groups than the controls, and they exhibit chaotic patterns of firing.
C) The genes in the prefrontal cortex that regulate how synapses function are dysfunc­tional in people with schizophrenia compared to those without the disease.
D) The hippocampus is larger in people with schizophrenia com­pared to those without the disorder.

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