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What is schizophrenia?

1999-01-28T00:00:00

Schizophrenia is the most common form of severe mental illness and affects one in 100 people at some point in their lives. There are about 250,000 diagnosed cases in Britain. The disease tends to begin in men in their late teens and in women a few years later.

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