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Schizophrenia began as an abstruse concept. There was very little information concerning Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has transitioned from being known as a supernatural occurence to becoming known as a common brain disorder
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Opicinus de Canistris, an Italian scribe at the papal court in Avignon is struck by Schizophrenia. This was one of the first recorded cases of Schizophrenia.
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Sculptor Messerschmidt was influenced by Schizophrenia. In his sculptures he displays the symptoms of Schizophrenia. Historians question whether Messerschimidt suffered from Schizophrenia because he claimed to have had visiting demons.
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Psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and John Haslam describe young patients who show premature dementia. These were the first thorough desciptions of Schizophrenia.
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Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol's short story "Diary of a Madman" is about Poprishchin who has Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia becomes a topic that interests many playwriters and authors.
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Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum and Ewald Hecker are among the first to categorize forms of madness.
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Heinrich Schüle uses the term "dementia praecox" to describe Schizophrenia. This is one of the first advances of Schizophrenia in the science world.
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Swiss psychiatrist Adolf Meyer argues that mental illness is triggered by psychosocial phenomena, such as stress or a difficult childhood.
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Swiss psychiatrist Eugene Bleuler coins the term, schizophrenia, or split mind.
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Roaring '20s icon Zelda Fitzgerald is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves chlorpromazine as an antipsychotic.
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German psychiatrist Kurt Schneider distinguishes core symptoms characterizing Schizophrenia.
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The DSM-III recognizes five subtypes of schizophrenia: disorganized (hebephrenic), catatonic, paranoid, residual and undifferentiated.
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Mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., is awarded a Nobel Prize despite his struggles with Schizophrenia.
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The journal Nature publishes three studies that implicate thousands of possible gene variants.
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The DSM-5 removed the subtypes of schizophrenia. To receive a Schizophrenia diagnosis, you must display the symptoms(Yuhas).