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The mechanisms of schizophrenia
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The mechanisms of schizophrenia

Nancy C Andreasen
Current opinion in neurobiology, Vol.4(2), pp.245-251
1994
DOI: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90080-9
PMID: 8038584

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Abstract

Current investigations of the mechanisms of schizophrenia usually employ one of three possible explanatory models: a single disease entity model, a multiple disease entity model, and a dimensions of psychopathology model. None of these is at present preeminent. These models are used to explore four different types of mechanisms that may produce the symptoms of schizophrenia: neurodevelopmental, neural circuitry, genetic/molecular mechanisms, and chemical anatomy.
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