Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the twenties to early thirties. Available treatments can relieve many symptoms, but most people with schizophrenia continue to suffer some symptoms throughout their lives; it has been estimated that no more than one in five individuals recovers completely. There are different ways of treatment, which were discussed in May and Palo Alto's article and in Mark Vonnegut's article. May and Alto suggested the old way of schizophrenia's treatment and they were not effective. In Mark's article, he suggested the latest way of treatment and ended his article by saying that there is no cure for schizophrenia and that much effort has gone into treating its symptoms.
After five years of investigatng schizophrenia mental disorder, May......

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Title: Schizophrenia
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