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>>11279097
Schizophrenia is already known to be caused by elevated dopamine levels. Just google it and confirm for yourself.
What I don't get is why we haven't standardized a normal range for dopamine so we can test a person's dopamine level (maybe because it depends where the dopamine is in the brain at the time and can't be extracted by a simple blood test).
Interestingly the opposite of schizophrenia is Parkinson's disease, a lack of dopamine. They have to take a medication called L-dopa which sometimes makes the Parkinson's person schizophrenic instead