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Comprehensive Insights into Schizophrenia Causes Treatments and Prevention
- 1 University of California, Davis, Davis, 95616, United States of America
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Abstract
With the significant improvement in material life in recent years, people now focus more on the status and well-being of spiritual life. The discovery and diagnosis of schizophrenia, a severe mental disorder, thus came into the attention. Current studies have centered on the causes and associations, which are often combined with the symptoms of schizophrenia. As a consequence, scientists developed various treatments. Some scholars suggested control and prevention methods, but many of them remained uninformative and unimplemented on account of real factors. The study combines most of the available information and gives a general overview of schizophrenia as an influential mental disorder. The mechanism of certain genes or alleles inherited from ancestors or unpleasant grown-up environments that can affect the risk of getting schizophrenia is analyzed. Treatment approaches referring to pharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, and other commonly mentioned ones are included. Some prevention techniques that correlate with health literacy, governance participation and parental environment are advocated. The meaning of this review lies in proposing a summarized thesis for schizophrenia, investigating present methods and indicating the inadequacies. In consideration of the shortcomings in medical care and public health system, it is expected that future research can inquire into innovative treatments and public prevention strategies.
Keywords
Schizophrenia, Antipsychotics, Systematic review
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Shu,C. (2025). Comprehensive Insights into Schizophrenia Causes Treatments and Prevention. Theoretical and Natural Science,89,57-63.
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