Wondering what’s Schizophrenia Brain all about?
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder found only in 1 to 2 percent of people in the world. This disorder also affects the feelings, actions, perceptions, behaviors, emotions, and thoughts of the patient of schizophrenia. A five-year-old child can have this disorder, although it is very rare. Young adults between the ages of 16 to 25 commonly develop this type of illness.
However, there is difference in age for development of this disorder between men and women, but they are in the same way at threat of schizophrenia. Yet, there is no particular cause for the disorder. It may be combination of early brain injure, pre-natal virus, and hereditary composition, which creates neurotransmitter troubles in the brain. These problems cause Schizophrenia symptoms like strange behavior, speech, disorder in thinking, delusions, and hallucinations.
No cure for this disorder has been discovered yet. One out of five patients recovers fully by implementing many different methods in this modern age. Supervision of antipsychotic drugs is the common treatment for this schizophrenia disorder. Electro-convulsive therapy is another treatment that is occasionally used today, which causes seizures by supplying a little amount of electric current all the way through the brain. Vitamin B is also an important dose for the cure of the disorder.
From the neurological studies it is found that the affected peoples have abnormal structural connectivity of their brain. Neurotransmitters releasing from the neurons causes the symptoms of the disorder. Thus the antipsychotic drugs have been become the commonly used treatment. It was thought that the excessive of dopamine in the brain causing the disorder problem. However, later it was found that the neurotransmitter serotonin is also playing a great role in the cause of the symptoms.
Later on, some other tests revealed that the blood flow in the frontal region is lower in the affected people than the normal people, which condition was termed as hypo-frontality. The prefrontal cortex, which is linked with the memory in the brain, is found to be affected severely. There are many drugs to control the schizophrenia, though they can’t help you to simply kill the disease. Researchers are trying hard to get all the answers to the causes and preventions of this disorder.
Some scientists are still finding the conclusion for the data they have, while others are still working to find out the cause of the schizophrenia. It is still a kind of mystery, and only time can tell what’s the real deal behind it!
Originally posted 2009-04-29 15:37:27.