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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a hard mental disorder. It reflects of numerous mental functions, thinking process, perception, emotions, motivation and motoric functions. It is better to look at schizophrenia like a syndrome, i.e. complex of symptoms and signs, because there is no agreement about the causes of this disease. There are a lot of hypothesis about the causes of schizophrenia. One stands that the unhealthy family atmosphere causes disorder; others stand on the biochemical conceptions of the disease which springs from derangements in the brain metabolism and leads to hallucinations. The first case of decease was described in 1896 by German psychiatrist E. Krepelin. He named it dementia praecox which mean early dotage, because patients lost most mental functions very early. He distinguished that syndrome from other distresses and first of all from manic-depressive psychosis or bipolar disorder. He also described three types of dementia praecox: paranoiac,...

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