A Beautiful Mind By Dr. Emil Kraepelin - 1220 Words

â€Å"A Beautiful Mind† depicts the true- story of a mathematical savant, John Nash and how schizophrenia has affected both his personal and social life. His hallucinations started in his college years at Princeton University and only worsened from then on. He hallucinated his roommate and best friend, Charles and his niece, Marcee. He also hallucinated that he worked secretly for the US Department with the aid of his supervisor, Parcher (also a fragment of his imagination). He became extremely paranoid but eventually came to the realization that he was sick when he almost lost his wife and child. At the end, he was able to live as a schizophrenic without the use of medication. He was able to distinguish reality from fantasy and lived on to receive a Nobel Prize for his work as a mathematician. This paper will describe schizophrenia, its history, symptoms, biological factors as well as its environmental aspect. History of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia was described in the late 19th century by Dr. Emil Kraepelin. He called it â€Å"Dementia Praecox† or premature dementia. He believed that any individual with such disorder would worsen overtime without even a slight chance of improvement. While Dr. Kraepelin was right in regards to it being a categorized as a brain a disorder, he was wrong to classify it as dementia. Dementia has a later onset than schizophrenia. Dementia often begins in old age while schizophrenia emerges during early adolescent to young adulthood. In addition,