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Introduction



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Infected with Insanity: Could Microbes Cause Mental Illness?
April 2008 Scientific American Mind article about the possibility that prenatal influenza infections might raise the risk for development of schizophrenia.
Broken Mirrors: A Theory of Autism
November 2006 Scientific American short article by Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Lindsay M. Oberman about the connection between autism and mirror neurons.
Schizophrenia Linked to Viruses
April 2001 Scientific American news article about retroviruses found in the cerebrospinal fluid of schizophrenia patients.
First Gene for Schizophrenia Discovered
March 2001 Scientific American news article about the discovery of a gene that appears to play an important role in catatonic schizophrenia.
What happens to the body and brain of individuals with schizophrenia?
Scientific American Ask the Experts article.


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Decoding Schizophrenia
Daniel C. Javitt; Joseph T. Coyle Scientific American, January 2004
The Early Origins of Autism
Rodier
Scientific American, February 2000


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