My article in the March issue of Scientific American MIND, an excerpt from A LETHAL INHERITANCE, is now on sale and online. Here’s the gist:
Signs of incipient psychosis show up early in life. Reading them is key to rescuing kids from the abyss of a serious mental illness.
In Brief:
- Signs of a mind in danger—including social deficits, impaired body sensations and reduced tolerance to stress—may show up anywhere from two months to 35 years before schizophrenia strikes.
- The prevalence of schizophrenia is 1.1 percent, but if a parent has the disorder, the child has a 10 to 12 percent increased risk and a 17.1 percent chance of developing a related personality disorder.
- Physical abuse, bullying by peers and ingesting cannabis can push a genetically vulnerable child toward psychosis.
CLICK ON THE MAGAZINE COVER TO GO TO THE ARTICLE
Or you can just buy the book instead!? — since it’s an excerpt, then you’ll have the article and much more.
| February 21, 2012
