Schizotaxia

Schizotaxia is an hypothesised, genetic constitutional susceptibility to developing schizophrenia due to a ‘subtle neurointegrative deficit’, which by a process of social learning leads to the development of, a schizotype personality structure.

Schizotype is characterized by four traits:
 * cognitive slippage
 * social aversiveness
 * anhedonia and
 * ambivalence

It has been suggested that schizotaxia results from the effects of early environmental insult in conjunction with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, and schizotype as only one of its possible outcomes.