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This paper reviews the key issues presented during the Fourth International Conference on Schizophrenia, which was held in October 1996 in Vancouver, Canada. The main emphasis was placed on the problem of stigma, loneliness and work as well as on the necessity to further elucidate the physiopathology of schizophrenia. Some of the barriers discussed are unlikely to disappear from human societies in the short term with any possible cure for schizophrenia as they are part of any major long-term illness, of which there is a long and ever increasing list.
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Haghighat, R. Schizophrenia: breaking down the barriers. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Nuerosci 247, 288–289 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900308
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900308