One of the most prevalent and difficult-to-treat symptoms of schizophrenia isn't hearing voices or paranoia or any of the more popularly associated features of the disease—it's forgetting things. Memory deficits are associated with many if not most psychiatric disorders, but among schizophrenics, the problem is unique both in its severity and in its consistency among patients of all of the disease's highly distinct subtypes.And like schizophrenia in general, memory problems are difficult to treat, to be generous. This may be about to change, however, as researchers from Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute have successfully, dramatically reversed memory deficits in mouse models by regrowing connections between neurons using a chemical compound. Their work is described today in the journalNeuron.

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