The environment and schizophrenia

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7321, 2010, Pages 203-212

  Van Os, Jim ^a,b   Kenis, Gunter ^a   Rutten, Bart P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HERITABILITY; PSYCHOLOGY; VULNERABILITY;

COGNITION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEAD INJURY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; CITIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MINORITY GROUPS; PHENOTYPE; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

CANNABIS;

EID: 78149462958     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09563     Document Type: Review

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