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#274 – Karl Deisseroth: Depression, Schizophrenia, and Psychiatry

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Psychiatry: Is It a Mental Disorder?

People who suffer from schizophrenia seem to be very interesting and very thoughtful in a nonlinear way about the world. They're very attuned to complexity and they come up with unlikely explanations, which is one of the things that makes it hard for them to function in the world. There's like self reflection that society forces on you because it's a disorder, some awesome kind. The first case in the medical literature, there was a classical schizophrenia.

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