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SUMMARY:Why people with schizophrenia die earlier? Mortality and accelerat
 ed ageing - Dr Emilio Fernandez-Egea\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20260611T113000Z
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CONTACT:Oliver Knight
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores one of the most persistent and unsettling f
 acts in psychiatry: the markedly reduced life expectancy associated with s
 chizophrenia. Drawing on results from our systematic review recently publi
 shed at the British Journal of Psychiatry\, this talk examines whether sch
 izophrenia is best understood not only as a psychiatric disorder\, but als
 o 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 ques
 tion is no longer whether markers of ageing matters in schizophrenia\, but
  how early it begins and what can still be changed.
LOCATION:Hybrid (in-person at the Herchel Smith Building and online via zo
 om)
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