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Schizophrenia is a very serious condition. It is the most common psychosis. Schizophrenia affects attention, thinking, social relationships, motivation and emotion. In a serious episode, most find it hard to understand the "reality" and it challenges our basic understanding about human perceptions of the real world. Most experts believe it is not really a single disorder, but has several different causes. This could be due to the fact that it has so many different characteristics. One aspect that all types of schizophrenia share is "a break with reality". No single cause has been identified with schizophrenia. Biological, behavioural and social research suggests a complex interplay between factors. For example, people might have an inherited tendency towards schizophrenia that is triggered by environmental circumstances. Schizophrenia depends in part on genetic factors. Grottesman (1978) studied the likelihood of offspring developing schizophrenia. It was found that children of one schizophrenic...

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