Academic attainment: a predictor of psychiatric disorders?
Poor educational attainment predicts the onset of schizophrenia spectrum disorders and could be a possible predictor for this specific group of mental illness.
These farm children have thus become adapted towards the allergens to which they are exposed. This immunological form ist similar to results from East Germany and the former USSR, in spite of the fact that lifestyle and exposure to microbes differ greatly. The immunological adaptation can best be interpreted as the result of a greater and continual stimulation of the Th1-immune response towards anthropozoonotic antigens.