Research by the Mednick group found that a major predictor of schizophrenia in high-risk children was __________.
A. mother absenteeism during childhood
B. difficulties or complications during childbirth
C. drinking by the mother in the last three months of pregnancy
D. an episode of high fever sometime during the first three months of infancy
Answer: B
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