Schizophrenia

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This paper presents three main theories of schizophrenia indicated in contemporary medical literature. The paper gives a general history of schizophrenia and discusses some of the past literature into the condition. It then discusses it towards the understanding of biochemical abnormalities, influences and defects of development, and then the pivotal link to acute stress.

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"Biological, Genetic and Developmental Roots of Schizophrenia. Introduction Research into schizophrenia has created large literatures on brain chemistry, genetics, and abnormal development. Biological theories of schizophrenia gained from progress in neuropsychiatry, the psychology of perception, and what can be dormant genetic features till an occasion of abrupt or prolonged stress creates a first psychotic episode. The rise of Neuroscience in the late 1950s and early 1960s has helped to track genetic factors that influence schizophrenia towards some knowledge of genetic dysfunction, neuronal molecules, neuronal organelles or differences in neural systems."

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