Not well, thank you. No way,' said the narrator. And the beast that she saw was real. From The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove , c 1999 by Christopher Moore. Used with the author's permission.
Schizophrenia is one of the most puzzling, frightening, and expensive of the psychiatric disorders.
Puzzling, because to this day, experts are arguing about what can cause such a catastrophic break with reality. Frightening, because it strikes in young adulthood with a randomness that is quite cruel. The search for answers continues, and I need to direct your attention to two web resources that discuss possible non-genetic causes of schizophrenia. This article , written by a British researcher, discusses the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia. This article on germ theory does not begin with a discussion of schizophrenia, but I invite you to read the entire piece and then pay particular attention to the part that discusses antibodies in diagnosed schizophrenics.