Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration in Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia: problems with neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration, or both?

In the case of schizophrenia, two major questions always arise:
1. How does the scheming of nature and nurture lead to the full onset of this illness around the time of adolescence?
2. What kind of neurobiological processes underlie this disorder such that the results of nature and nurture can appear to be neurodevelopmental at the onset of schizophrenia yet neurodegenerative over the lifetime course of this illness?

This clip from Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology, Video Edition covers the neurodevelopmental and the neurodegenerative theories of schizophrenia. To keep learning the essentials of psychopharmacology from Dr. Stephen Stahl, visit https://nei.global/epvideos