She did not have "schizophrenia" in the first place. The the DSM criteria may have overlapped, but bonafide schizophrenia comes with gray matter changes seen over fMRI.
The biggest clue is that she was never responsive to antipsychotics.
The biggest clue is that she was never responsive to antipsychotics.
Historically autism was lumped under schizophrenia and before that they were both lumped under dementia. Symptomatically similar with insufficient diagnostic precision or theory to differentiate.
Many things cause psychosis. Drugs are a good example. When first discovered LSD was often characterized as causing temporary chemically-induced schizophrenia. A useful metaphor but not accurate.
According to who?
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2008.07101562
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213158216301000
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395621005793
further i am having a hard time coming up with medical conditions that have a single test pass/fail like this.
Famously, pregnancy...
But as the article mentions it's not a single pass/fail test they seek but any biological marker at all.