In this article, the author talks about a new study that discusses why schizophrenia starts during the teen-age years. The abstract from the study discusses how they studied teen brain development and then says, "we argue that developmental variation of this consolidation process may be relevant both to normal cognitive and behavioral changes and the high incidence of schizophrenia during human brain adolescence." My reading of this is that they believe brain changes during adolescence lead to schizophrenia.
Just like with the article on ADHD that I wrote about recently, I believe science is coming to understand the biological mechanics of schizophrenia, but misunderstanding the cause. I believe that stresses during adolescence, combined with poor adaptive/emotional skills and possibly a genetic pre-disposition, cause the brain changes which cause schizophrenia. I do not believe that biological variance causes schizophrenia.
My hope is that science will eventually start investigating emotions and emotional health as a very common cause for disease.
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