HTR2A and schizophrenia: There are indications that M1 and/or M4 may tonically inhibit serotonin release (Cortes et al., 1984; Kenny et al., 2000), thus it is possible the decreases in muscarinic receptors seen in schizophrenia reduce the tonic inhibition of serotonin, resulting in an over activation of the system with the potential to cause decreases in post-synaptic receptors, such as the 5-HT2A, which have been reported in schizophrenia (see Dean, 2003) and increases in the pre-synaptic receptors, for example the 5-HT1D, which have not been reported (Scarr et al., 2004; Dean et al., 2006).