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Schizophrenia And Vitamin B-3
Schizophrenia is a syndrome, i.e. a constellation of symptoms and signs. These arise from a large number of etiological factors but lead to a final common disruption of brain biochemistry. I think the best definition of schizophrenia is one made by Dr. J. Conolly (1830) who defined psychosis as a disease of perception combined with the inability to tell whether these changes were real or not. It is a disorder of perception and of thinking. A person who sees everyone watching him when they are not (a disorder of perception), and believes there is a worldwide plot against him (a disorder of thought), has one of the schizophrenic syndromes.