Abstract
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that has no known cause yet. However, some of the proposed causes include genetic factors, biochemical factors, environmental factors, and substance abuse. Although research is still underway to learn more about these causes, this paper discusses some of the existing evidence that proves or disproves environmental factors as causative of schizophrenia. This paper concludes that environmental factors alone do not cause the mental disorder but that they work in conjunction with the genetic factors towards the disorder’s development. This paper then suggests that further research be conducted in order to come up with more ...
