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Schizophrenia: The elusive disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Jaak Panksepp*
Affiliation:
Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60201http://caspar.bgsu.edu/%7eneuro/Faculty/Faculty_jpanksepp.shtml
Joseph Moskal*
Affiliation:
Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL60201http://caspar.bgsu.edu/%7eneuro/Faculty/Faculty_jpanksepp.shtml
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Abstract:

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All mammals have social brains, and there is presently no evidence that humans have relatively more genetically dictated social brain circuitry than other species. The postulation that schizophrenia arises from disruption of brains systems uniquely devoted to social traits is obviated not only by the large number of anatomical and biochemical brain differences, but also by nonsocial symptoms of schizophrenic disorders.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004