Thanks for that.
The highest figures for those in utero during the holocaust is consistent with the similar finding for those who were in the final trimester of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter, suffering a higher incidence of schizophrenia diagnoses than those who were born before or after.
but, as previously linked to here,
A dysfunctional childhood, and especially sexual abuse, are also strong corelates of a higher incidence of Schizophrenia diagnoses Dead Link Removed
I'd better add this, as I've seen a few people on the forum, worrying about themselves recently. The risk of developing something that gets diagnosed as schizophrenia is very low, a lifetime risk of approximately 1% for the general population, and around 1.4% of the most at risk group in the holocaust study.
