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Research indicates that symptoms in childhood strongly predict disease in adulthood. In one long-term study, over 40% of people with schizophrenia who developed the disease in young adulthood had reported psychotic symptoms by age 11. For children with a family history of schizophrenia, the following inherited traits may be warning signs:
- Deficits in working (short-term) and verbal memory
- Impairments in gross motor skills (the child's ability to control different parts of the body)
- Attentio...
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