Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Mental illness in

Modern medical thinking may have originated with Hippocrates. As far back as the fifth century B.C., Hippocrates hypothesized that mental illnesses had physical causes. He saw the brain as "the organ of consciousness"--the site of both intellect and emotion. Such ideas eventually led to theories of somatogenesis. Hippocrates believed that deviant thinking corresponded to brain pathology.

More recently, 19th century physician, Wilhelm Griesinger, also proposed that mental disorders have some physiological cause. In 1883 a follower of Griesinger, Emil Kraepelin, published a book delineating the "organic nature" of various mental illnesses. He regarded the individual diseases as distinct; according to Kraepelin, mental illnesses each had their own symptoms, etiology, course, and prognosis.

Towards the end of the 1800s, significant progress was also achieved in the neurological sciences. This work eventu

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ed by their own delusions and hallucinations. Schizophrenia is extremely heterogenous. One large-scale study performed by the World Health Organization, the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia (IPSS), described a multitude of different symptoms. People diagnosed with schizophrenia, however, generally have only some of them. These various problems may be broadly grouped into two symptom categories: the positive and the negative symptoms. For the most part, positive symptoms in schizophrenia involve behavioral excesses. Thought disorders may present as disorganized speech: patients have difficulty organizing their ideas into something that the listener can interpret. Such patients may also be incoherent: although their speech makes reference to various central ideas or theme, the patient's different thoughts may be unconnected, or loosely associated. Lastly, another schizophrenic speech disorder consists of derailment. Patients may be able to communicate with other people, but sometimes have trouble focusing on a single topic. Positive symptomatology may also include delusions. The IPSS found that about 65% of schizophrenics suffered from persecutory delusions. German psychiatrist, Kurt Schneider, delineate
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