Some things parent/doctors dont tell you

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Schizophrenia – early factors

There is a large genetic component: if a parent is schizophrenic, a child’s risk is 10 times greater; if one identical twin has schizophrenia, the other’s risk is 50 times greater (11).

Many fetal/birth factors double the hazard (as much as is claimed for cannabis use): maternal diabetes or exposure to famine or viral infections; emergency caesarean section; premature birth, low birth weight, oxygen starvation, birth complications, needing an incubator; being an unwanted child or father dying before birth; being born or brought up in a city; below-normal IQ and autistic spectrum disorders.

Migrating to a new country increases the risk 18 times; a mother who doesn’t understand you increases the risk 5.8 times; being in an ethnic minority carries a sliding scale – the more of you there are, the better your chance of avoiding the disease.

There are some very early indicators of risk (12): delayed speech and motor development; late learning to stand, walk or potty-train; poor motor function, autistic spectrum disorders, being kept back a year at school, attention defecit, poor verbal memory. In one study, it was possible for researchers to spot which individuals went on to develop schizophrenia from home movies of very young children – simply from their behaviour.

11 http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealthinformation/mentalhealthproblems/schizophrenia/schizophrenia.aspx#causes

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http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/163/3/376

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