Cultural aspects of schizophrenia.
Over the past 50 years, schizophrenia as a disorder has been widely studied across cultures throughout the world. There are differences not only in the symptoms and presentation but also in outcome and prognosis. Various authors have tried to explore and explain such variation but the reasons for this are not always clear. In this paper, we review some of the cultural aspects of schizophrenia.
Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Medical College and Sion Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India.
Gurvinder
G
Kalra
Dinesh
D
Bhugra
Nilesh
N
Shah
D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology