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Schizophrenia is a devastating, all-too-common neuropsychiatric illness — and it’s long bedeviled scientists.

It’s one thing to keep the hallucinations in check: Decades-old antipsychotics will generally do the trick. But there is no treatment for other debilitating symptoms of the disease: listlessness, memory loss, a general inability to find any joy in life.

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