http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#schizophrenia Descriptions, especially memoirs (Mark Vonnegut's <cite>Eden Express</cite> is very good). Etiology. Biochemistry. Genetic components. Possible viral connections. Idealization in the mid-20th century. <P>Not to be confused with <a href="possession.html">multiple personality disorder,</a> or chimerism. <ul>To read: <li>Martine Brune, "Schizophrenia---an evolutionary engima?", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2003.10.002"><cite>Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews</cite> <strong>28</strong> (2004): 41--53</a> <li>Hans W. Moises, Pall Matthiasson, Tomas Zoega, Gaurang Jhala, Liu Yang, Irving I. Gottesman and Tomas Helgason, "Neuregulin 1 strongly implicated as susceptibility gene for schizophrenia by allelic association study," <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0203527">cond-mat/0203527</a> </ul>