Snapshot of Schizophrenia: Current Knowledge and Prospects

Schizophrenia is a widely known mental disorder that can cause severe life struggles if not being treated properly. According to its diagnose, patients suffer from delusions, hallucinations, and other disorders. For treatment, antipsychotics are commonly used, but their efficiency cannot be promised due the lack of knowledge about this illness. In previous studies, scientists had suggested neuronal, genetic, epigenetic, immunological factors. However, fully understand mechanism schizophrenia, there still long way go for understanding how these factors interact induce dysfunction.