At first glance my first impulse is to comment this relationship between smoking and schizophreny...
...And just going with this post of mine, I think there’s a causal relationship between schizophreny and smoking if this relationship is detected on an individual level. It could be that schizophrenia causes people to smoke for some reason, or through other factors, or that cigarete smoking causes schizophrenia, or there’s a factor that causes both smoking and schizophrenia.. I think there has to be somekind of explanation, because coincidence seems too unlikely.
But my judgement may be affected because I have the following vague memory:
...As far as I know cigarette smoke hinders a Fibroblastic or neuroblastic growth factor from functioning, it happens to affect the growth of amygdala, and damage to amygdala is linked to schizophreny. Which would.. Well “wink” at smoking → growth factor malfunction → amygdala malfunction → increased likelihood for obtaining schizophrenic symptoms. However all these facts would need to be checked. :D
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At first glance my first impulse is to comment this relationship between smoking and schizophreny...
...And just going with this post of mine, I think there’s a causal relationship between schizophreny and smoking if this relationship is detected on an individual level. It could be that schizophrenia causes people to smoke for some reason, or through other factors, or that cigarete smoking causes schizophrenia, or there’s a factor that causes both smoking and schizophrenia.. I think there has to be somekind of explanation, because coincidence seems too unlikely.
But my judgement may be affected because I have the following vague memory:
...As far as I know cigarette smoke hinders a Fibroblastic or neuroblastic growth factor from functioning, it happens to affect the growth of amygdala, and damage to amygdala is linked to schizophreny. Which would.. Well “wink” at smoking → growth factor malfunction → amygdala malfunction → increased likelihood for obtaining schizophrenic symptoms. However all these facts would need to be checked. :D