Developing Schizophrenia

Neuroscience and schizophrenia are densely en tangled and mutually supporting , such that a critical evaluation of schizophrenia is , effectively , an evaluation of applied aspects of contemporary neuroscience. A critical historical account of the development of schizophrenia is therefore followed by an overview of current issues and debates . A summary of possible future research directions then identifies a range of extant research strategies which already undercut or exceed this diagnosis. It is concluded that the example of schizophrenia functions more generally to illustrate how neuroscience need not be reliant upon poorly supported psychiatric concepts of mental illness.