Degenerative disorders schizophrenia

In biological systems free radicals may contribute to DNA damage, mutations or degenerative disorder of cell cycle leading to cancer, stroke, Parkinson s and Alzheimer s disease or schizophrenia, but they are also involved in processes that are necessary for life such as intracellular killing of bacteria or the cell signalling process. ... 

Whereas many metabolic defects affect only a small number of individuals, emotional illnesses including depression, schizophrenia, and other affective disorders at one time or another afflict a large fraction of the population. Autism affects thousands of children.1055 Parkinson disease and Alzheimer disease are just two of a number of degenerative neural diseases attacking older people. Less commonly, young persons contact multiple sclerosis and muscular dystrophy, which is often a disease of neuromuscular junctions. 

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