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30. Epidemiology and prevention of schizophrenia and dementias
- Schizophrenia
- Epidemiology
- Males = females
- Onset in 20s – 30s
- Clinical features
- Positive and negative symptoms
- Risk factors
- Stress
- Psychosocial factors
- Cannabis abuse
- Family history
- Treatment
- Avoid validation of delusions
- Avoid confronting patients about delusions
- Prevention
- Maintaining healthy relationships and friendships
- Avoiding cannabis
- Seeking therapy for depression early
- Teach stress and anxiety coping
- Promote exercise
- Dementia
- Epidemiology
- Disease of elderly
- Female > male
- Causes
- Neurodegenerative disease
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Risk factor
- Age
- Female
- Family history
- CVD risk factors
- Lack of physical activity
- Prevention
- No smoking
- Healthy weight
- Exercise
- Healthy diet
- Reduce comorbidity
- Stay mentally alert
- Maintain social relationships