PVALB and schizophrenia: With antioxidant and neuroprotector properties, taurine might be able to normalize the altered redox state and parvalbumin-positive interneuron loss found in animal models and patients with schizophrenia (Fung et al., 2010; Gill and Grace, 2014; Salim, 2014; Steullet et al., 2017; Kaar et al., 2019; Goh et al., 2022).