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Thursday 11 June 2026, 12:30-13:30
Why people with schizophrenia die earlier? Mortality and accelerated ageing
- đ¤ Speaker: Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge
- đ Date & Time: Thursday 11 June 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
- đ Venue: Hybrid (in-person at the Herchel Smith Building and online via zoom)
Abstract
This talk explores one of the most persistent and unsettling facts in psychiatry: the markedly reduced life expectancy associated with schizophrenia. Drawing on results from our systematic review recently published at the British Journal of Psychiatry, this talk examines whether schizophrenia is best understood not only as a psychiatric disorder, but also as a condition of advanced biological ageing. I will present converging evidence from epidemiology, cognition, neuroimaging, telomere biology, epigenetics, and immune-metabolic research, and argue that the key question is no longer whether markers of ageing matters in schizophrenia, but how early it begins and what can still be changed.
Series This talk is part of the Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series series.
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