Why is it that schizophrenia affects very intelligent individuals?

I am pretty sure of this fact, though not completely. But is it known why schizophrenia affects the intelligent? Does it have to do with neurological chemicals? Or is it seemingly random? Any information about why it affects who it does is much appreciated.

I am a schizophrenic veteran diagnosed some 40 years ago. I do not know whether you would consider me intelligent because intelligence is relative I think. A N.Y. city stock broker who works successfully in the world trade center is considered by his peers to be a financial genius. An African Bushman who successfully supports his family in the wild there is considered a genius by his peers. Swap their environments and both would probably be unable to survive in each others world. But both may become schizophrenic. But so may the panhandler in N.Y. city or the native Bushman who does not have a family because he can't support them and so lives on the handouts of his brethren. Swap them and both may be able to survive in their new worlds!
That is because they live by and on the largess of others.

The point I'm trying to make is that I.Q. is relative. Source(s): Read "The mismeasure of man." by Stephen J. Gould published by W.W. Norton & Company, N.Y. NY,1996,1981, for an assesment of IQ testing

Schizophrenia affects 1% of the population overall. Many people who are very intelligent have schizophrenia, as do people who are not so intellectually gifted. Take a look at web sites like NAMI (The Nationally Alliance for the Mentally Ill) or read books by E. Fuller Torrey (an expert on this disorder). There are so many treatments now available that it's not quite the same disease that it was 20 to 30 years ago.
I think any illness can happen to any person. Being intelligent doesn't prevent anyone from becoming ill.

I don't think schizophrenia affects more intelligent people than it does dumb people. Dumb people can get it just as often.

Love Jack