Open Questions: Mental Illness

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.

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