Erika Jääskeläinen, Marianne Haapea, Nina Rautio, Pauliina Juola, Matti Penttilä, Tanja Nordström, Ina Rissanen, Anja Husa, Emmi Keskinen, Riikka Marttila, Svetlana Filatova, Tiina-Mari Paaso, Jenni Koivukangas, Kristiina Moilanen, Matti Isohanni, Jouko Miettunen
Birth cohort designs are useful in studying adult disease trajectories and outcomes, such as schizophrenia. We review the schizophrenia research performed in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC 1966), which includes 10,934 individuals living in Finland at 16 years of age who have been monitored since each mother's mid-pregnancy. By the age of 44, 150 (1.4%) had developed schizophrenia. There are 77 original papers on schizophrenia published from the NFBC 1966. The early studies have found various risk factors for schizophrenia, especially related to pregnancy and perinatal phase...
2015: Schizophrenia Research and Treatment