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  2. Montreal experiments - Wikipedia

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    The Montreal experiments were a series of experiments, initially aimed to treat schizophrenia [1] by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using the Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron's method of "psychic driving", [2] as well as drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, sensory deprivation and Thorazine.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia

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    Their stays ranged from 7 to 52 days, and the average was 19 days. All but one were discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in remission", which Rosenhan considered as evidence that mental illness is perceived as an irreversible condition creating a lifelong stigma rather than a curable illness.

  5. Schizophrenia In America - The Huffington Post

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    This is one of the main reasons that 40 percent of people with schizophrenia stop taking their medications within 18 months. And while antipsychotics can help schizophrenia’s “positive” symptoms, such as hallucinations, they have a minimal impact on the “negative” symptoms, which are arguably more devastating.

  6. Eugen Bleuler - Wikipedia

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    He defined secondary symptoms as behavioral reactions to primary symptoms. Differentiating these symptoms contributed to an increased understanding of schizophrenia in general. Like Kraepelin, Bleuler argued that dementia praecox, or "the schizophrenias", was a physical disease process characterized by exacerbations and remissions.

  7. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Schizophrenia has great human and economic costs. [7] It decreases life expectancy by between 10 [13] and 28 years. [14] This is primarily because of its association with heart disease, [230] diabetes, [14] obesity, poor diet, a sedentary lifestyle, and smoking, with an increased rate of suicide playing a lesser role.

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