The Causes of Schizophrenia

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The paper discusses the complex interplay of genetic predispositions, the environment and physical factors in the development of schizophrenia. The paper then details the uncontrollable biological, genetic and environmental factors as well as the controllable genetic and nurturing factors and highlights how their role is still unclear in causing schizophrenia to manifest itself.

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"Schizophrenia is one of the most severe chronic mental illnesses an individual can face over the course of his or her lifetime. People with schizophrenia can suffer a wide range of debilitating symptoms, including hearing voices that are not really there, feeling as if their thoughts are being controlled by outside forces, fearing that their minds can be read against their will, or they can exhibit other paranoid symptoms that alienate the individual from the rest of society. Schizophrenics often find it difficult to organize their thoughts and communicate with other people. Instead, they may speak with jumbled and disordered phrases (Spearing, 2002)."

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