... This paper provides an overview of literature relevant to this topic. Neonatal and prenatal complications related to schizophrenia are broken down into four general areas of research: family history, gestational insults, obstetric complications, and neurodevelopmental deficits. Although this research is moving forward, prospective studies have only recently been established; therefore, investigators have been ... agreement on the exact nature, role, and expression of these complications in the affected population. Contradictory finding have been published on the relationships between ob...

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... This paper provides an overview of literature relevant to this topic. Neonatal and prenatal complications related to schizophrenia are broken down into four general areas of research: family history, gestational insults, obstetric complications, and neurodevelopmental deficits. Although this research is moving forward, prospective studies have only recently been established; therefore, investigators have been ... agreement on the exact nature, role, and expression of these complications in the affected population. Contradictory finding have been published on the relationships between ob...

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... of the disease is similar for both groups (Kumra). However, children with schizophrenia often have "more severe premorbid neurodevelopmental abnormalities, more cytogenetic anomalies, and potentially greater family histories of schizophrenia and related spectrum disorders" (Kumra). This type of evidence suggests that children with schizophrenia have a much stronger genetic contribution toward the disorder than adults ... Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, learning disabilities, aggression, and temper tantrums (Schaeffer 540). When treating a young person with schizophrenia, a multi-modal...

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... functions, although it is not yet clear whether schizophrenia causes the abnormalities or the abnormalities cause schizophrenia (Lefton, 2000). According to some studies, it has been found that individuals with a family predisposition to schizophrenia have several structural brain abnormalities, including reduced brain size and enlarged ventricles that are similar to those in patients with schizophrenia. It could be argued that these ... ...

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