There's no single entity that guarantees schizophrenia, says HealthMaker Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, director, New York State Psychiatric Institute. In this video, he explains why.
[BLANK_AUDIO] There is no single entity which produces a 100% liability to produce this rate, even if you have monozygotic, an identical twins, your chances of developing illness in the course of your life for only 50%, the other 50% has to be determined by non genetic factors.
Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, is Director of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and holds the Lieber Chair for Schizophrenia Research at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia. He graduated from Georgia Washington School of Medicine.
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