Tag: etiology of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia in the Golden Ass
What is schizophrenia? According to the website of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, incurable, and disabling brain disorder that affects about 1% of Americans today. Its cause is unknown but most experts assume it is genetic. According to E. Fuller Torrey, the founder and Executive Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute and a high-profile schizophrenia researcher, âschizophrenia is caused by changes in the brain and ... these can be measured by changes in both brain structure and brain function. ⊠Schizophrenia is thus a disease of the brain in exactly the same sense that Parkinsonâs disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and Alzheimerâs disease are diseases of the brain.â Behind this confident rhetoric lies a heated controversy.