Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia- Severe disorders on which there are disturbances of thoughts,
                  communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations.
                  (Psychology: An Introduction,Charles D. Morris with Albert A. Maisto) It's
                  quite horrendous. First of all, you've got somebody that you love, a child that
                  you've raised. And then suddenly, the child becomes a crazy person. Better
                  drugs and new ways of treating schizophrenia are enabling more of the
                  disease's victims to live in society instead of institutions, and even to hold
                  down jobs. Schizophrenia can be detected in childhood--even traced to the
                  womb. These malfunctions may be wired into the brain before birth. There is
                  mounting evidence that schizophrenia reflects deviation in development rather
                  than a backwards process that begins in maturity. Scientists,whose findings
                  have already paved the way for a greater understanding of schizophrenia, and
                  researchers around the world are hunting for underlying causes of the disease.
                  People diagnosed with schizophrenia display a wide-ranging breakdown of
                  perception and thought. A glitch in the timing of cell responses across broad
                  swaths of brain tissue may help account for these people's fragmented
                  experience of the world, according to a new study. In the brains of
                  schizophrenia sufferers, electrical activity fails to synchronize with a specific
                  sound frequency as it does in the brains of mentally healthy people. Improved
                  drugs to fight psychosis--the loss of contact with reality that afflicts
                  schizophrenics--are already coming on the market, and some researchers... [continues]

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