The causes, treatment and future prevention of schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is constantly being researched and new causes are continually being discovered, making it difficult to identify and cure patients which may be affected by an undiscovered cause. Schizophrenia is diagnosed uses a system of different characteristics of the disease. If the patient possesses a certain number of these characteristics then they are said to be schizophrenic. Treatments for schizophrenia are varied and specialized based on the particular characteristics and background of the patient, but …

…devastation it causes. Schizophrenia is only beginning to be understood and it is necessary for research to continue at the speed it is going so that everyone with schizophrenia can achieve at least some recovery. Bibliography Books Davison, GeraldAbnormal Psychology New York, 2001 Volk, Tony Course Cram: PSYC 100 Kingston, 2002 Websites Internet Mental Health http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-ps01.html Schizophrenia Homepage, The http://www.schizophrenia.com Schizophrenia Society of Canada http://www.schizophrenia.ca