People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition
theconversation.com
Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.
  • okwhateverdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    4 days ago

    Man, these are such tiny numbers I am super skeptical of the claims. Could it be we simply haven’t seen a case yet? How many people are born blind? What fraction of the populace experiences schizophrenia? If we go by the damn numbers in the article, 1.6:50000 is schizophrenic over a very long time period. The sample size of 60 is absurdly tiny. 70 years is not a long time. 3 generations in which a miniscule fraction are born blind.

    • captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      1.6 in 50000 sounds way off, WHO says:

      Schizophrenia affects approximately 23 million people or 1 in 345 people (0.29%) worldwide. The rate is 1 in 233 people (0.43%) among adults