Dec 12, 2023
Childhood Cat Exposure Once Again Linked to Schizophrenia
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
People may be more than two times likelier to develop schizophrenia-related disorders if they owned cats during childhood than if they didn’t:
Living with cats as a child has once again been linked to mental health disorders, because our furry friends apparently can’t catch a break.
In a new meta-analysis published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, Australian researchers identified 17 studies between 1980 and 2023 that seemed to associate cat ownership in childhood with schizophrenia-related disorders — a sample size narrowed down from a whopping 1,915 studies that dealt with cats during that 43-year time period.
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