tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16910837.post7280184479970599093..comments2023-07-11T04:26:58.662-04:00Comments on Psychdata - Dedicated to exposing the fraud of psychiatry: There are other ways to prevent suicideComplaints@psychsearch.nethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12059929581724970151noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16910837.post-80313909433996294092007-05-07T21:16:00.000-04:002007-05-07T21:16:00.000-04:00NAMI is totally suspect to say the least for also ...NAMI is totally suspect to say the least for also not telling the public that advancing paternal age is the major avoidable risk factor for autism and schizophrenia. They seem very thrilled to have Teen Screen and more and more profits for Lilly et al. If NAMI had anything else but pharmaceutical industry profits in mind, it would have warned about advancing paternal age end mental illness since its earliest days. Not a single word do they write or say about the most potent cause/risk factor of schizophrenia or autism.<BR/>Mutations in the DNA of sperm making cells accumulate rapidly with paternal age 33 and above.<BR/><BR/>http://www.schizophreniaforum.org/for/curr/Malaspina/default.asp<BR/><BR/><BR/>"The most irrefutable finding is our demonstration that a father’s age is a major risk factor for schizophrenia. We were the first group to show that schizophrenia is linearly related to paternal age and that the risk is tripled for the offspring of the oldest groups of fathers.7 This finding has been born out in every single cohort study that has looked at paternal age and the risk for schizophrenia. The only other finding that has been as consistently replicated in schizophrenia research is that there is an increased risk associated with a family history of schizophrenia. Since only 10% to 15% of schizophrenia cases have a family history, family history does not explain much of the population risk for schizophrenia. However, we think that approximately one third or one quarter of all schizophrenia cases may be attributable to paternal age. Paternal age is the major source of de novo genetic diseases in the human population, which was first described by Penrose8 in the 1950s. He hypothesized that this was due to copy errors that arose in the male germ line over the many cycles of sperm cell replications. These mutations accumulate as paternal age advances. After the Penrose report, medical researchers identified scores of sporadic diseases in the offspring of older fathers, suggesting that these could occur from gene mutations. Particular attention was paid to conditions in last-born children. In the 1960s, an excess of schizophrenia in last-born children was also reported. Dolores Malaspina, M.D.concerned hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14987948292416367555noreply@blogger.com