PSYCH 092: Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most misunderstood disorders in medicine. It is not simply a condition of hallucinations and delusions; it is a disorder that disrupts perception, cognition, motivation, emotion, and the ability to connect with the world. For centuries it was viewed as madness, then as degeneration, later as a dopamine disorder, and now increasingly as a disorder of brain circuits, neurodevelopment, and dysfunctional neural networks.
In this opening chapter of the schizophrenia series, Medlock Holmes begins the investigation by asking a deceptively simple question:
What actually…
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