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  2. Hidden Valley Road - Wikipedia

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    Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).

  3. Genain quadruplets - Wikipedia

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    All four of the sisters developed schizophrenia by the age of 24. [2] There was a history of mental illness in Mr. Genain's family that might have been an example of genetics being linked with mental illness or it may have just been a dysfunctional and abusive family free from a specific genetic component.

  4. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    About 0.3% to 0.7% of people are diagnosed with schizophrenia during their lifetime. [19] In 2017, there were an estimated 1.1 million new cases and in 2022 a total of 24 million cases globally. [2] [20] Males are more often affected and on average have an earlier onset than females. [2]

  5. History of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The stigmatising confusion arises in part due to Bleuler's own use of the term schizophrenia, which for many signalled a split mind, and his documenting of a number of cases with split personalities within his classic 1911 description of schizophrenia. The earliest known use of the term to mean "split personality" was by psychologist G. Stanley ...

  6. Daniel Paul Schreber - Wikipedia

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    An analysis of Schreber's Memoirs in the context of Freud's analysis. "[P]sychosis is a special but emblematic case of language entrapment." Jacques Lacan: 'On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis', Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, transl. by Bruce Fink, New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.

  7. Childhood schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    It is often difficult for children to describe their hallucinations or delusions, making very early-onset [19] schizophrenia especially difficult to diagnose in the earliest stages. The cognitive abilities of children with schizophrenia may also often be lacking, with 20% of patients showing borderline or full intellectual disability. [20]

  8. Mental disorders in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Lover, When You're Near Me, 1952 science fiction short story by Richard Matheson on a man being traumatically steered in his will by a woman of a dull extraterrestrial race who covets him sexually. Dear Diary, 1954 science fiction short story by Richard Matheson. Diary entries from the years AD 1964, AD 3964, and LXIV (=64) all show the same ...

  9. Evolution of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    A 2013 systematic review and meta-analysis found that the siblings of schizophrenics had a slightly lower fertility rate than the general population while parents of schizophrenics had a fertility rate roughly similar, leading the researchers to conclude that a compensatory fitness advantage in siblings and parents cannot explain the ...