Future of Covid: Will Schizophrenia Haunt the Next Generation?
<p>Whenever I watch horror ghost movies, I always think the characters may have <a href="https://www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/mental-health/schizophrenia" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">schizophrenia</a>. If Covid-19 had occurred a generation or two earlier, I might have thought that the schizophrenia character‘s mother caught Covid during pregnancy.</p>
<p>This idea struck me when a commenter on my <a href="https://medium.com/microbial-instincts/immunity-debt-vs-theft-what-explains-the-post-lockdown-infection-rebounds-2a218283936e?sk=0dac5b838d199b8b524d82f214dd214d" rel="noopener">previous article</a> shared a new study, showing that schizophrenia-specific genes upregulated in pregnant mothers with Covid-19 vs. no Covid. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38140-1" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">This study</a> isn’t to be taken lightly. It was published in a prestigious journal, <em>Nature Communications</em>, led by world-renowned scientists in the schizophrenia research field.</p>
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