Can a Virus Cause Schizophrenia?
Subtitle: Facts and Hypotheses
Series: Neurobiological Foundation of Aberrant Behaviors, 6
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston (Massachusetts), USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Subjects: Medical microbiology & virology; Psychiatry; Schizophrenia; Microbiology; Virus diseases; Virology; Psychology; Medical / Nursing; Psychopathology - Schizophrenia; Medical; Neurovirology; Psychiatry - General; Medical / Psychiatry; Medical : Microbiology; Medical : Psychiatry - General; Psychology / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia; Life Sciences - Biology - Microbiology; Mental Illness; Complications; Etiology
First sentence: The idea that schizophrenia is caused by a contagious agent is rooted in beliefs that are intertwined with the early conceptions of the disease.