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...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b, is standing trial on charges of racially or ethnically aggravated attempted multiple murder and of committing acts designed to denigrate a group of people based on their religious or ethnic background.

He faces up to 20 years in jail.

Investigators say Koptsev was sane when he committed the crime, and was not a member of any extremist group.

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- Home :: News - ZOOM GARY FANDEL/THE REGISTERMental illness simulation: Des Moines Police Officer Kelly Drane experiences the virtual hallucination machine at the Des Moines police station on Wednesday.

Mental illness defined ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b: A disease of the brain that affects one in 100 people and affects how they interpret reality.

Medications are necessary.

Therapy is important.

BIPOLAR DISORDER: A treatable illness marked by extreme changes in mood, thought, energy and behavior.

Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depression because a person's mood can alternate between mania and depression.

The change in mood can last for hours, days, weeks or months.

It also affects one in 100 people.DEPRESSION: A common disease.

It affects nearly one in 10 adults each year and nearly twice as many women as men.

Depression has a variety of symptoms, but the most common are deep feelings of sadness or a marked loss of interest or pleasure in activities.

Depression is treatable with medication and therapy.Source: National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Call for help Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Iowa, (515) 254-0417 Virtual reality machine gives...

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b and was actively psychotic when he committed them.Turnbach issued his verdict after viewing a videotape in which Wilson told investigators he set his room on fire with matches, a cigarette lighter and a can of aerosol spray with the intent "to burn the whole place down and watch everyone die."A resident of a neighboring room, Lenwood Archer, 61, died from smoke inhalation.

In addition, a responding firefighter, Frank Peluso of the Pleasant Plains Fire Company, suffered heat exhaustion.Dover Woods housed people on welfare, Medicaid or disability, as well as people who had been discharged from state psychiatric hospitals.

Wilson, originally from Camden, had lived there for 15 months.Wilson waived his right to a jury trial on the charges and opted to have Turnbach decide whether to accept his insanity defense.The trial began March 15.

It resumed Tuesday and was concluded after the testimony of Dover Township Police Detective James Magovern.Magovern testified about his investigation of the cause and origin of the fire, as well as his interview of Wilson after the fire.Magovern said the investigation ruled out accidental causes of the blaze.

Wilson's room was consumed by the fire, which was consistent with Wilson's statements that he used aerosol cans, lighters and matches to ignite his bedding, clothes and curtains.Wilson also told investigators he was mad at the facility's administrator because she had taken away his toaster oven, Magovern said."He repeatedly told ...