Footprints of schizophrenia : the evolutionary roots of mental illness /
"Of all the mental illnesses, schizophrenia eludes us the most. No matter the strides scientists have made in neurological research nor doctors have made in psychiatric treatment, schizophrenia remains misunderstood, almost complacently mythologized. Without a reason for the illness, patients f...
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Lanham, MD :
Prometheus,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I
- The crucible
- Along came a spider: The sixth sense
- Neanderthal's dream, or what would Freud say about dopamine?
- Part II
- Johnny's not the same
- New rules
- Let's talk medication, Paul Schreber, prepulse inhibition, Charles Bonnet Syndrome
- Evolution versus entropy, the theory in its totality, a look into the future
- Part III
- The polars uni- and bi-, or the invention of happiness
- Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, stuttering and Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, the New York Marathon, and some other theories.