There may be one ... in the future.
That was the assumption by the psychiatrists who defined such diseases into existence in order to protect their field and status. ~40 years later, all evidence points to the contrary.
However, the genetic basis for the disease has been rather well documented by Princeton U and UC Irvine
Not only wrong, but impossible. You can't have a genetic basis for a disease that is defined by symptoms. I can construct a series of symptoms that are better supported by such correlations and are far more bogus with ease. Having assumed that the symptoms which are psychiatric constructs correspond to a disease, the only possible way to document any genetic basis is to identify correlations between those regarded as fitting the symptoms and genetics. Only even this failed, as the
1) The would-be underlying genetics don't hold for all those diagnosed with schizophrenia and do hold for those who never present symptoms of schizophrenia
and
2) atypical antipsychotics.
As early as the 1990's, genes were isolated that were directly related to the prevalence in identical twins.
Turns out that said genes (as well as dopamine and other would-be underlying etiological markers of schizophrenia) neither apply to all schizophrenics nor can identify schizophrenics as those with these markers don't necessarily present symptoms of schizophrenia.
There is no doubt that antipsychotics successfully treat the disease.
Completely wrong.
1) Today, most antipsychotics are recognized as being nothing more than general treatments that mask or control symptoms, which is why most antipsychotics are prescribed to those with mood disorders like bipolar, not schizophrenics.
2) Atypical antipsychotics are "atypical" because they aren't supposed to work. They do. Why? Because the best theories as to the etiology of schizophrenia lack even this little evidence.
As I said, maybe in the future a cure will be found but at present, there is none.
You can't cure what is defined to be a disease without any pathology and that is defined to be incurable such that even if the only basis for diagnosis (symptoms) never present themselves again, you aren't "cured" because you are by definition in remission.
[QUOTE[Unless you can prove me wrong?[/QUOTE]
Can you demonstrate that schizophrenia exists apart from a particular classification of symptoms that were arbitrarily changed in order to improve inter-rater reliability?