Why does schizophrenia often occur in early adulthood?

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Understanding why this happens is very closely linked to understanding what causes schizophrenia. This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. read more

Unlike virtually every other mental illness, schizophrenia is fairly unique in that its first onset is nearly always in young adulthood — not childhood or as a teen, and rarely after one’s 30s. Most people who are diagnosed with schizophrenia have their first symptoms and episode in their 20s — early to mid-20s for men, a little later (late-20s) for women. read more

Well past studies have shown that mutations in a gene called DISC1 are linked to schizophrenia. read more