Schizophrenia
03 Oct 1994 12:02Descriptions, especially memoirs (Mark Vonnegut's Eden Express is very good). Etiology. Biochemistry. Genetic components. Possible viral connections. Idealization in the mid-20th century.
Not to be confused with multiple personality disorder, or chimerism.
- To read:
- Martine Brune, "Schizophrenia---an evolutionary engima?", Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 28 (2004): 41--53
- Hans W. Moises, Pall Matthiasson, Tomas Zoega, Gaurang Jhala, Liu Yang, Irving I. Gottesman and Tomas Helgason, "Neuregulin 1 strongly implicated as susceptibility gene for schizophrenia by allelic association study," cond-mat/0203527