Schizophreni A Mental Illness - 1426 Words

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is categorized as an s sever and debilitating illness, it is known to affect at least 1% of the world’s population. (Hirvonen, J., Hietala, J. 2011). Schizophrenia is seen to be a disease with functional abnormalities of different brain structures, for example like the striatum, hippocampus, and pre frontal cortex. ( Hirvonen, J., Hietala, J. 2011). Dopamine is always involved with schizophrenia and it’s known that schizophrenia isn’t caused by genetics, but it is seen as mixture of common and different environmental and interaction risk factors. (Hirvonen, J., Hietala, J. 2011). When a person is diagnose with schizophrenia it’s a mental illness they will have it for life but, with the correct†¦show more content†¦Also it ca be that they have powers that no one else has. Another thing can also be that there is something in their brain like a radar or a radio. (Carlson, 2014).The presence of hallucinations are also part of the positive symptom and what hallucinations is, it’s the presence of a vision that a schizophrenic sees that isn’t necessarily there, it can also be voices in their heads. A negative symptom can be the lack of presence of emotions or speech. The cognitive symptoms can be the lack of movement in the hands, feet, etc. It can be poor problem solving skills and problems in learning and memory. (Carlson, 2014). It can take up to three to five years for symptoms of schizophrenia to appear in a person. It begins with negative symptoms then cognitive and lastly positive which can appear months later. These three symptoms can give hints to a psychiatrics of the type of brain abnormalities that are at fault for this. (Carlson, 2014). Studies have showed that schizophrenia is not a genetic disease, there isn’t one single gene that causes schizophrenia. (Hirvonen, J., Hietala). There multiple risk factors that can cause schizophrenia in an individual. For example it can be an environmental or a genetic risk factor it can also be how they interact with others. (Hirvonen, J., Hietala).