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This is the first 1,000 characters of 840 words (3.36 pages) in the essay titled Schizophrenia and its causes In the search to find out what schizophrenia is and its causes, researchers have now determined that schizophrenia is a neurological or physical brain disorder as opposed to earlier diagnosis as mental disorder. These questions have plagued everyone who has had contact with someone with schizophrenia, from the public to the medical profession alike. It is now clear that schizophrenia is caused by a brain defect. People with schizophrenia show a number of biological abnormalities, all of which point to a severe problem in the way the brain functions. The terms in which researchers have chosen to define schizophrenia are neurobiological disorders (neuro meaning the disease is a dysfunction of the nervous system and biological because the origins and primary manifestations are biological in nature) (Andreasen p646) .For many years the word schizophrenia has aroused a lot of discomfort in the world. Invested with meaning once feared it is still used as an instrument of ridicule in ordinary conversation, in the media and among professionals themselves. Schizophrenia, the disease, continues to be an illness about which the public at large remains ignorant even though, along with other psychiatric disorders, it has become more susceptible to modern scientific investigation producing information that has clarified the origin, process, and outcome of the disorder. Brilliant advances in brain and behavioral research over the last twenty years have armed scientist and clinici... |
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Keywords: schizophrenia, contact, brain disorder, brain defect, physical brain, brain functions, diagnosis, ignorant, mental disorder, medical illness, ordinary conversation, economic background, medical profession, scientific investigation, psychiatric disorders, behavioral research, helplessness, clinicians, anguish, ridicule