A genetic postmortem analysis of the brains of patients with schizophrenia suggests the dysfunction of dopamine receptors in the caudate nucleus may play a role in causing cause the disorder.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded to John O'Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain"