So too with someone whose mental illness results in illegal impulses when those impulses are as impossible to control as is the flailing arm of a person having a seizure.

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Further into the future, if scientists better understand the neural bases of mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, it could be possible to also develop treatments by targeting groups of neurons with electrical impulses.

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