Journal
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
Volume 43, Issue 6, Pages 1190-1196Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/schbul/sbx121
Keywords
neurodevelopment; sociodevelopment; dopamine; risk factors
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- Medical Research Council [1116129, MR/N026063/1, MC_U120097115, G0700995] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0700995, MR/N026063/1, MC_U120097115] Funding Source: UKRI
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At its re-birth 30 years ago, the neurodevelopment hypothesis of schizophrenia focussed on aberrant genes and early neural hazards, but then it grew to include ideas concerning aberrant synaptic pruning in adolescence. The hypothesis had its own stormy development and it endured some difficult teenage years when a resurgence of interest in neurodegeneration threatened its survival. In early adult life, it over-reached itself with some reductionists claiming that schizophrenia was simply a neurodevelopmental disease. However, by age 30, the hypothesis has matured sufficiently to incorporated childhood and adult adversity, urban living and migration, as well as heavy cannabis use, as important risk factors. Thus, it morphed into the developmental risk factor model of psychosis and integrated new evidence concerning dysregulated striatal dopamine as the final step on the pathway linking risk factors to psychotic symptoms.
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