connectopathy

noun

Etymology

From connect + -o- + -pathy.

Definitions

  1. An atypical presentation or functioning of neural connections within the human brain.

    • If the latter, then schizophrenia was, in neurobiological parlance, a connectopathy— a disease rooted in how cells communicate with one another—and thus not readily discernable in slices or sections of postmortem brain tissue.

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