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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Psychotic City Living

The claim:
Living in a city makes people develop schizophrenia.
Tell me more:
The claim is not quite that stark, but it's close. For a study published last week, researchers interviewed 2,063 British twins (some identical, some not) at age 18 about "psychotic experiences" they'd had since age 12 - such as feeling paranoid, hearing voices, worrying their food might be poisoned, and having "unusual or frightening" thoughts. Among those who lived in the most densely populated large cities, 34 percent reported such experiences; 24 percent of adolescents in rural areas did.

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