These circulating problems influence brain function in a variety of undesirable ways. A family history of psychiatric problems is more common in patients with celiac disease.
Celiac disease is genetically determined involving two or more concurrent genes.
This genetic marker may indicate a predisposition for bowel absorption abnormalities or immunologic propensities that result, not only in celiac disease itself, but other contingent abnormalities as well. Schizophrenia has been associated with gluten intolerance. The diagnosis, schizophrenia, describes a variety of differing individuals who belong to complex group of brain-disordered people often with a chronic or relapsing disease that leads to dementia. The schizophrenic process distorts sensing, feeling, remembering, deciding, and acting. It is unlikely that schizophrenia is a single disease with a single cause.