The girl, who hails from Ashoknagar, Bhopal, had a fleshy bulge on the back of her neck since birth. After being admitted to ...

The study suggests this risk of schizophrenia may stem from malformations in the skull that restrict the growth of part of the brain. And these malformations can be traced back to a gene called Tbx1.

On the day of Coontz’s procedure, Gary Steinberg, the chair of neurosurgery, drilled a nickel-size burr hole into Coontz’s skull and injected stem cells around the affected part of her brain.