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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