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Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

“A Beautiful Mind” is based on the life of mathematician, Dr. John Nash, who battled schizophrenia for many years. Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness. Like diabetes or heart disease, mental illness is a medical illness. Schizophrenia appears to be caused by an imbalance of chemicals in the brain--dopamine and serotonin. Dopamine is responsible for emotions, motivation, and movement. Serotonin is involved in regulation of mood, sleep, and appetite. The brains of people with schizophrenia have abnormalities in dopamine and serotonin activity. Stress, heredity, drugs, other medical illness, and physical injury to the brain can also contribute to schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia is characterized by a dysfunction of the thinking process, such as hallucinations and delusions, and withdrawal from the outside world. A hallucination is when a person hears or sees things that do not exist. Delusions are when a person believes in ideas that are......


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