World Health Organization. Symptoms and characteristics include distorted thinking, emotions, and sense of self, auditory and visual hallucinations, and delusions.
Most people with schizophrenia develop it in early adulthood, and men tend to show symptoms earlier than women. Annually, the new number of schizophrenia cases is 1.5 per 10,000 people.Schizophrenia is in the top 15 leading causes of disability worldwide.
In the U.S., around 1.5 million people get diagnosed with it every year. Risk factors for schizophrenia include genetic traits, chemical imbalances in the brain, and environmental stress in early life.
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