We hypothesised that transcriptional changes in either BDNF, and/or a transcription factor critical for the maintenance of dopamine neurons (Nuclear Receptor Related-1 protein; NURR1), and/or BDNF receptors – TrkB (TK+ or TK-) and p75, would be found in the post-mortem schizophrenia midbrain, particularly in schizophrenia cases defined as “high inflammation”. This evidence concerns the gene NTRK2 and schizophrenia.