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A unitary model of schizophrenia: Bleuler's "fragmented phrene" as schizencephaly.
Archives of general psychiatry - 1 Sept 1999
Andreasen N C
Abstract excerpt
inding a unifying concept behind the diversity of signs and symptoms in schizophrenia is a central challenge to contemporary research. A neo-Bleulerian unitary model is described, which defines the illness as a neurodevelopmentally derived "misconnection syndrome," involving connections between cortical regions and the cerebellum mediated through the thalamus (the cortico-cerebellar-thalamic-cortical circuit...
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