Risk variant for schizophrenia in the neurogranin gene impacts on hippocampus activation during contextual fear conditioning

Dysfunction of the hippocampus constitutes a core finding in schizophrenia. In the current study, we observed diminished hippocampal activations during the acquisition of contextual fear in healthy carriers of the genome-wide supported risk variant for schizophrenia, rs12807809 in neurogranin.

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