Schizophrenia
New schizophrenia data have been reported by E.F. Torrey and co-authors
Published in Mental Health Business Week, February 6th, 2010
According to recent research published in the journal Schizophrenia Bulletin, "Although the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War II is well known, the concurrent Nazi genocide of psychiatric patients is much less widely known. An attempt was made to estimate the number of individuals with schizophrenia who were sterilized and murdered by the Nazis and to assess the effect on the subsequent prevalence and incidence of this disease."
"It is estimated that between 220 000 and 269 500 individuals with schizophrenia were sterilized or killed. This total represents between 73% and 100% of all individuals with schizophrenia living in Germany between 1939 and 1945....
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