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Low grades linked to higher schizophrenia risk

(BBC News) UPDATED 2008-08-09

An international team of scientists has found that poor school performance may be a sign that a child has a higher risk of developing schizophrenia in later life. UK and Swedish researchers followed more than 900,000 children born between 1973 and 1983. They found that getting a failing grade on a standardized, multi-subject test given in those countries was linked to a doubling of the small risk of schizophrenia. But researchers stress that schizophrenia is often linked with high, rather than low, intelligence. Read full story >

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