ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2016
A review of vulnerability and risks for schizophrenia: Beyond the two hit hypothesis.
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152 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Relationships Between Immune-Inflammatory Features and Social Cognitive Impairments in Patients With Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Chronic social stressors and striatal dopamine functioning in humans: A systematic review of SPECT and PET studies.Molecular psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Relevance of diet in schizophrenia: a review focusing on prenatal nutritional deficiency, obesity, oxidative stress and inflammation.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Longitudinal Structural MRI Findings in Individuals at Genetic and Clinical High Risk for Psychosis: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The Gut Microbiome in Psychosis From Mice to Men: A Systematic Review of Preclinical and Clinical Studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: A Systematic Overview of Its Genetic Heterogeneity From Classical Studies to the Genomic Era.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Pooled it
- Interactions Between Variation in Candidate Genes and Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder: a Systematic Review.Molecular neurobiology · 2018Pooled it
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- Proteome-wide Mendelian randomization and colocalization analyses identify potential biomarkers for schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Oxidative Stress-Mediated Neuroinflammation in the Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Double-hit of MIA and Nod2 deficiency induces sex-specific offspring behavioral abnormalities through placental dysregulation.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Vitamin D3 status and seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in reproductive-aged women in Northern Iran.BMC women's health · 2025Article
- Social perception in parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and their adolescent offspring - The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study.Schizophrenia research. Cognition · 2025Review
- Perinatal insult dimensions and developmental trajectories of psychotic-like experiences.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Unravelling the Viral Hypothesis of Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive Review of Mechanisms and Evidence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The Role of Astrocytes in the Molecular Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia: Between Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration.Biomolecules · 2025Review
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Abstract
Schizophrenia risk has often been conceptualized using a model which requires two hits in order to generate the clinical phenotype-the first as an early priming in a genetically predisposed individual and the second a likely environmental insult. The aim of this paper was to review the literature and reformulate this binary risk-vulnerability model. We sourced the data for this narrative review from the electronic database PUBMED. Our search terms were not limited by language or date of publication. The development of schizophrenia may be driven by genetic vulnerability interacting with multiple vulnerability factors including lowered prenatal vitamin D exposure, viral infections, smoking intelligence quotient, social cognition cannabis use, social defeat, nutrition and childhood trauma. It is likely that these genetic risks, environmental risks and vulnerability factors are cumulative and interactive with each other and with critical periods of neurodevelopmental vulnerability. The development of schizophrenia is likely to be more complex and nuanced than the binary two hit model originally proposed nearly thirty years ago. Risk appears influenced by a more complex process involving genetic risk interfacing with multiple potentially interacting hits and vulnerability factors occurring at key periods of neurodevelopmental activity, which culminate in the expression of disease state. These risks are common across a number of neuropsychiatric and medical disorders, which might inform common preventive and intervention strategies across non-communicable disorders.
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