Key points are not available for this paper at this time.
The current literature data on the etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenia were analyzed. The research method is the analysis of scientific papers on this problem over the past 5 years, presented in the databases of eLibrary, National Library of Medicine and electronic versions of the journals “World Psychiatry Journal”, “The Lancet Psychiatry”, “Schizophrenia Bulletin” and others. Genetic, neurotransmitter, psycho-traumatic, sociocultural and other theories of the origin and development of schizophrenia are analyzed in the review. Schizophrenia is a disease difficult to verify and genetically determined. According to modern theories, the occurrence of schizophrenia and the appearance of symptoms can be influenced by metabolic disorders of neurotransmitters, psycho-traumatic factors, socio-cultural aspects of human life, while the anatomical subcortical structures of the brain are damaged.
Vanyukov et al. (Thu,) studied this question.