Evidence That Schizophrenia is a Brain Disease. Data from modern scientific research proves that schizophrenia is unequivocally a biological disease of the brain, just like Alzheimer's Disease and Bipolar Disorder. For one thing, schizophrenia is now known to be partially caused by genetics and to be inherited.
One mole of atoms of any element always has the same number of atoms (about 7023602200000000000â 6.022Ã1023). This number was chosen so that if an element has an atomic mass of 1 u, a mole of atoms of that element has a mass close to one gram.
An element is uniquely determined by the number of proton s in the nuclei of its atom s. The number of protons in the nucleus of the atom of an element is known as the atomic number of that element. The number of electron s in the atom of a specific element can vary. If the number of electrons is the same as the number of protons, then the atom has no electric charge. However, if the number of electrons is different from the number of protons, the atom is called an ion. If there are more electrons than protons, it is a negative ion; if there are fewer electrons than protons, it is a positive ion. The number of neutron s in the atom of a specific element can also vary.