Good at Math(s)

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Rita wrote:
  >  
> > That sounds like it's the same part of the brain that goes wrong 
to
> > cause schizophrenia. 
> Amy wrote:
> I took the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) once 
and 
> my results showed a spike on schizoid tendencies--odd, since I was 
> sure I said "no" whenever it asked whether I ever hear voices no 
one 
> else hears, have olfactory hallucinations, etc.  Anyway, maybe I'll 
> develop into a math genius around the same time my latent 
> schizophrenia blossoms.  That would be some comfort.
> 
> Loonily yours,
> Amy

I don't know how much credence to give this, but I once read an 
article that proposed that schizophrenia can be triggered in 
susceptible candidates by the mother having a baby less than 18 
months after a previous baby (it is the earlier baby that somehow 
develops the schizophrenia).  Something about the first baby not 
being ready to separate from the mother at that point, while she has 
to go off and care for the new baby.  Don't know if the older baby 
has to be first in the family or not.  If not, this would presumably 
make Ron a candidate to develop schizophrenia...assuming JKR has read 
the same article and all...

--Barb