Schizophrenia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Oct 16, 2024 · Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel and behave. It may result in a mix of hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and behavior. Hallucinations involve seeing things or hearing voices that aren't observed by others.
Schizophrenia - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
What are the risk factors for schizophrenia? Several factors may contribute to a person’s risk of developing schizophrenia. Genetics: Schizophrenia sometimes runs in families.
Schizophrenia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
Feb 23, 2024 · Risk factors include birthing complications, the season of birth, severe maternal malnutrition, maternal influenza during pregnancy, family history, childhood trauma, social isolation, cannabis use, minority ethnicity, and urbanization.
Schizophrenia: Risk factors, causes, and more - Medical News Today
Aug 25, 2023 · Risk factors for a person developing schizophrenia may include genetics, environmental factors such as living in poverty or stressful and dangerous surroundings, or nutritional issues at birth.
Schizophrenia Risk Factors: What to Know - Healthline
Jul 25, 2024 · These are the known risk factors for schizophrenia and how they influence someone's chance to develop the condition.
Causes and Risk Factors of Schizophrenia - Verywell Mind
Mar 25, 2024 · Schizophrenia is a complex brain disease, and many factors play a part in its onset. Learn the causes of schizophrenia and factors that can elevate the risk.
Causes of Schizophrenia: Role of Genetics and Triggers - Verywell …
Jan 23, 2024 · Schizophrenia Risk Factors. Genetics is the biggest risk factor for developing schizophrenia. However, many people with the disorder don’t have a known family history of the mental illness. In addition, many people who have close …
Risk factors of schizophrenia - Wikipedia
Schizophrenia is thought to arise from multiple mechanisms and complex gene–environment interactions with vulnerability factors. [1][2] Risk factors of schizophrenia have been identified and include genetic factors, environmental factors such as experiences in life and exposures in a person's environment, and also the function of a person's brai...
Schizophrenia: What It Is, Causes, Symptoms & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
Jun 28, 2023 · Overview. Learn about the three stages of schizophrenia. What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a psychiatric condition that has severe effects on your physical and mental well-being. It disrupts how your brain works, interfering with …
A review of vulnerability and risks for schizophrenia: Beyond …
We have presented a summary of selected risk factors which demonstrate the considerable heterogeneity and complexity that the neuropathogenesis of schizophrenia displays. It is likely that multiple hits, with some conferring a greater risk than others, operate within a genetically primed individual across key periods of neurodevelopment to ...