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 PET scan. Schizophrenia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with no precise or single cause. Schizophrenia is thought to arise from multiple mechanisms and complex …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The glutamate hypothesis of schizophrenia models the subset of pathologic mechanisms of schizophrenia linked to glutamatergic signaling. The hypothesis was initially based on a set of …

The imprinted brain hypothesis is a hypothesis in evolutionary psychology regarding the causes of autism spectrum and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, first presented by Bernard Crespi and …

Germ theory of disease Scanning electron microscope image of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera The germ theory of disease is the currently accepted scientific theory for …