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Schizophrenia: non-genetic risk factors
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:15:59
Publish Date: 2015-10-15 22:53:56
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Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects more than 21 million people worldwide. While genetics plays a part, several environmental factors can predispose someone to getting the condition. This episode of A Grey Matter features Professor John McGrath, a psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher at the Queensland Brain Institute. He talks about smoking, vitamin D, and how common it actually is to experience hallucinations and delusions. For a full transcript of the podcast, go to: http://bit.ly/1Mt51WW Presented, produced and edited by Donna Lu. A Grey Matter is the Queensland Brain Institute's podcast about neuroscience. It features music from Incompetech and Bensound, available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license. Music used: Better Days – http://bit.ly/1KIUquE Funky Hip Hop – http://bit.ly/1Ld4RVN ‘There It Is’ by Kevin McLeod – http://bit.ly/1nW96tY

 

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