Schizophrenia

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This paper explains that schizophrenia, a form of mental illness, was first identified about a century ago by Emil Krepelin, who called this condition "dementia praecox" because it occurred at a young age. The author points out that the Vulnerability Model suggests that schizophrenia is caused by a combination of interacting factors, including physical, psychological, and environmental events that work dysfunctionally to produce schizophrenia. The paper relates that research methods include autopsies of the brain, analysis of fetal development, studies of identical twins, and studies using brain imaging.

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Introduction
Causes
The Schizophrenic Brain
Conclusion

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"Given the devastating nature of schizophrenia, researchers have put considerable effort into trying to determine the cause or causes of schizophrenia. Is it caused by nature (genetics, head injury, etc.) or nurture " how we are raised" This nature vs. nurture debate has gone on throughout part of the 19th century and virtually all of the 20th. Kraepelin, who first described the disorder, believed that it was organic in origin. However, with the advent of Freudian thought, belief swung to the idea that our childhoods determined whether we would have mental illnesses as an adult or not."

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