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Genetic mutation linked to schizophrenia in both humans and mice • Feb. 19, 2025, 9:56 PM ET (News-Medical)
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People with schizophrenia have altered ability to visually perceive contrast, researchers find • Jan. 29, 2025, 2:12 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

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Also Known As dementia praecox

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Harry Stack Sullivan
American psychiatrist
Patrick McGorry
Irish-born Australian psychiatrist
Luce Irigaray
French linguist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher
Emil Kraepelin
German psychiatrist
Eugen Bleuler
Eugen Bleuler
Swiss psychiatrist
R.D. Laing
British psychiatrist
Manfred J. Sakel
Austrian neurophysiologist and psychiatrist
Benedict Augustin Morel
French psychologist

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