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    Researchers Find Link Between Epilepsy, Schizophrenia Risk

    HealthDay – Tue, Sep 20, 2011

    TUESDAY, Sept. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People affected by epilepsy are nearly eight times more likely than those without it to develop schizophrenia, and those with schizophrenia are also six times more likely to have epilepsy than people who are not schizophrenic, a new study suggests.

    Researchers in Taiwan say this two-way relationship between the two conditions may be due to genetic, environmental or neurobiological causes.

    After analyzing information on almost 5,200 patients with schizophrenia and more than 11,500 patients with epilepsy and controls matched for age and sex in both groups, researchers found the prevalence of epilepsy was higher in the schizophrenia patient group at about 7 per 1,000 person-years, compared to just over 1 per 1,000 among those not affected by schizophrenia.

    Meanwhile the study, published in Epilepsia, showed the prevalence of schizophrenia was about 3.5 per 1,000 person-years for patients with epilepsy, compared to about 0.5 among those without epilepsy. The researchers noted the incidence of schizophrenia was slightly higher among men with the disease than women.

    "Our research results show a strong bidirectional relation between schizophrenia and epilepsy," said the study's lead author Dr. I-Ching Chou, an associate professor with China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan, in a journal news release. "This relationship may be due to common pathogenesis in these diseases such as genetic susceptibility and environmental factors, but further investigation of the pathological mechanisms are needed."

    More information

    The National Institutes of Health provides more information on schizophrenia and epilepsy.

     

    5 comments

    • terryt
      terryt  •  7 mths ago
      Roses are red, violets are blue,,I'm schizophrenic and so am I
      • terryt
        terryt 7 mths ago
        Would you like nuts on your sundae,,WHAT, I am not which one of us are you talking to.
      • terryt
        terryt 7 mths ago
        It's not my fault,,I have to do what the little voices tell me
      • terryt
        terryt 7 mths ago
        Besidesi'vegothisundercontrol
    • terryt
      terryt  •  7 mths ago
      And schizophrenics show a 1 in 5 preference for politics and psychiatry as occupations
    • terryt
      terryt  •  7 mths ago
      Ok, so does that mean bipolar people only have seizures half of the time.?
    • Wanda
      Wanda  •  8 mths ago
      My only comment is why has it taken so long for scientists to even attempt to research mental illness? It seems they are really digging in now , and I hope the government will provide the resources needed to continue the research. The clock is ticking for so many that suffer not only from the disease but from a society that has abandoned them. We turn our backs in fear. But need to remember that the odds are it will affect us all directly or indirectly.
    • joe
      joe  •  8 mths ago
      Their is a high correlation between schizophrenia and religiosity.
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