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One hundred years after the term schizophrenia was adopted, the charity Rethink Mental Illness has launched an inquiry into how the condition might be treated more effectively.

The chair of the inquiry, Professor Robin Murray, claimed during an that schizophrenia "costs the health service more than cancer or cardiac disease."

While ´óÏó´«Ã½ science correspondent Tom Feilden and took stock of a century of schizophrenia.

Writing on the subject for The Guardian's Comment is free blog, Rachel Whitehead examined

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