According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Schizophrenia is "a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like that have lost touch with reality." Children do have the rare possibility of having schizophrenia, but it is most common for symptoms to show between the ages of 16-30. Schizophrenia is currently not curable, but scientists are working hard through testing mice to figure out a cure. Scientists have four hypothesis to the cause of schizophrenia; the dopamine hypothesis, NMDA hypothesis, single-carbon hypothesis, and the membrane hypothesis. People with extreme schizophrenia may hear voices in their heads that are constantly telling them what to do. This causes them to behave differently because they are focusing on the voices rather than an every day activity. Due to the distractions that are always in their mind, patients with schizophrenia usually cannot function in a normal society and have to move to treatment homes.
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