Scholarship@Villanova Event- Schizophrenia: Groups at Risk and Recently Discovered Causes

Please join us at Villanova University's Falvey Memorial Library on Monday, Feb. 6, at 1:00 p.m. for a lecture by Bernard J. Gallagher III, PhD, faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. The lecture will be held in room 204, located on the second floor of Falvey. 

In his talk, titled “Schizophrenia: Groups at Risk and Recently Discovered Causes,” Dr. Gallagher will be presenting research from his new book, The Sociology of Mental Illness. He heads a Villanova research team investigating the causes of schizophrenia. Some of his team's recent findings are intriguing. Specifically, he will present evidence that some cases of schizophrenia may stem from a prenatal illness and that influenza vaccination of pregnant women may be an important method of preventing some cases of this devastating mental illness.