Journal article
Understanding the Causes of Schizophrenia
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.340(8), pp.645-647
02/25/1999
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199902253400811
PMID: 10029652
Abstract
Schizophrenia is one of our most important public health problems. It is a common, tragic, and devastating mental illness that typically strikes young people just when they are maturing into adulthood. Once it strikes, morbidity is high (60 percent of patients are receiving disability benefits within the first year after onset),
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as is mortality (the suicide rate is 10 percent).
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Despite the fact that people with schizophrenia are all around us (the lifetime prevalence is 1 percent worldwide),
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this illness is often misunderstood, and people with schizophrenia are stigmatized by both the medical profession and the public.
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Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Understanding the Causes of Schizophrenia
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England journal of medicine, Vol.340(8), pp.645-647
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM199902253400811
- PMID
- 10029652
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/25/1999
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984003939602771
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