In his book Far From The Tree: Parents, Children, And The Search For Identity, Professor Andrew Solomon draws a parallel between schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease.
He wrote that schizophrenia is "an illness not of accrual but of replacement and deletion; rather than obscuring the previously known person, this disease to some degree eliminates that person".
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