The evolution of schizophrenia refers to the theory of natural selection working in favor of selecting traits that are characteristic of the disorder. Positive symptoms are features that are not present in …

There are several evolutionary theories related to schizophrenia spanning time from when Homo erectus gained control of fire onward to the modern day. [3] The first theory related to schizophrenia is …

History of schizophrenia The word schizophrenia was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908, and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, …

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17][7] characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking or behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] …

Disorders commonly considered are depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, autism, eating disorders, and others. Key explanatory concepts are of evolutionary mismatch (when modern environments cause …

Schizophrenia affects around 0.3–0.7% of the general population at some point in life (i.e. lifetime prevalence), [1] or 21 million people worldwide as of 2020 (about one of every 285). [2] By using …

Epigenetics of schizophrenia The epigenetics of schizophrenia is the study of how inherited epigenetic changes are regulated and modified by the environment and external factors and how these changes …

The causes of schizophrenia that underlie the development of schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder, are complex and not clearly understood. A number of hypotheses including the dopamine hypothesis, and …