“Likewise, adults that were prenatally exposed to famine conditions have also been reported to have significantly higher incidence of schizophrenia.”
Looks like support for another civgene theory. That schizophrenia is genetic resistance to manipulation by psychopaths. In this case epigeneticly triggered by starvation of an unborn’s mother. Starvation, has a strong likelyhood it’s been caused by a collapsing economy. Civgene predicts economic collapses are because the percentage of psychopaths in the economy has grown too large.
http://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fundamentals/
citations from link.
- St Clair D., Xu M., Wang P., Yu Y., Fang Y., Zhang F., Zheng X., Gu N., Feng G., Sham P., and He L. Rates of Adult Schizophrenia Following Prenatal Exposure to the Chinese Famine of 1959-1961.JAMA 294(5):557-562 (2005).
- van Os J, Selten JP. Prenatal exposure to maternal stress and subsequent schizophrenia. The May 1940 invasion of The Netherlands. Br J Psychiatry 172:324-6 (1998).
Interesting implications for supernatural faiths with fasting rituals. Are they systemically creating more schizophrenics? How about dieting? Is it statistically significant?