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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Neurotransmitters
Message-ID: <314@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 15:28:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 15:28:46 1985
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In article <994@cbosgd.UUCP> rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt) writes:
>                              There is probably more than one kind of
>schizophrenia, so this explanation is also an over-simplification, but
>there is also considerable evidence from identical twin studies for a
>genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.

The symptoms associated with schizophrenia are apparently  generated  by  a
fairly broad range of disorders.  Hence such disparate cures as megavitamin
therapy, massive doses of phenothiazines, and electroshock, most  of  which
work in some cases but none in all cases.

The  twin  studies  demonstrated  a  genetic  predisposition  but  it  only
accounted  for  ~14%  of the variance.  Early environmental factors were of
greater importance (eg: being raised by/in a schizophrenic family).
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