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Schizophrenia
Psychiatry · Mental Health
Severe
Severity
Uncommon — affects about 24 million people worldwide, roughly 1 in 300
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Psychiatry
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Results from a complex interaction of genetic predisposition
- 2abnormal brain development and neurotransmitter imbalances
- 3and environmental factors such as prenatal complications
- 4early life stress
- 5or substance use
- 6particularly cannabis use during adolescence. A family history of schizophrenia significantly increases individual risk.
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