Schizophrenics may experience auditory delusions such as unwanted voices (Photographee.eu/Shutterstock)
Surely “schizophrenics” should be “people with schizophrenia”.
Though schizophrenia is typically diagnosed when men are in their late teens/early 20s and women are in their late 20s/early 30s, scientists have long suspected the condition begins much earlier.
A new study, 'Convergence of placenta biology and genetic risk for schizophrenia', has found that mishaps in the womb affecting the placenta may be the missing puzzle piece. “For the first time, we have found an explanation for the connection between early life complications, genetic risk, and their impact on mental illness and it all converges on the placenta,” according to Daniel R. Weinberger, lead investigator of the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, where the study was done.
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