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Eye examinations could enable clinicians to detect early signs of neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions.
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Marcus Woo
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Marcus Woo is a freelance science writer based in San Jose, California.
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Schizophrenia — a severe mental-health condition that often involves psychosis — has long been an enigma. Before the early twentieth century, psychiatrists thought that it comprised several disorders, which were given labels such as ‘catatonic syndrome’ or ‘adolescent insanity’. And for much of the past century, researchers considered schizophrenia to be an illness of only the mind, and sometimes even attributed it to bad parenting. Although it has since been established that schizophrenia’s symptoms have biological origins, and some risk factors have been identified, its precise causes remain unclear, and its diagnosis is complicated and can be subjective.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01114-9
This article is part of Nature Outlook: The eye, an editorially independent supplement.
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