The Maudsley environmental risk score for psychosis
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Environmental risk factors for psychosis
Genetic factors are clearly important in the etiology of schizophrenia, but the environment in which an individual's genes find expression is also crucial to the development of the illness. In this review of environmental risk factors for schizophrenia, we consider risks operating prenatally and perinatally, during childhood, and then later in life prior to illness onset Some of these risk fact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0033-2917,1469-8978
DOI: 10.1017/s0033291719002319