Schizophrenia is a disease that affects your brain. Having this mental disorder makes it hard to distinguish what is real and what is not real. Schizophrenia affects more than one percent of the world’s population. One percent may not seem like a lot but when you put it into perspective of just how many people are in the world it makes to be a larger number than you really think. Schizophrenia is also known as a type of psychosis. This disrupts normal speech, thoughts, and behaviors. Having Schizophrenia can disrupt your normal lifestyle and imposes a significant burden on the patient including a very poor quality of life with increased morbidity and mortality.
This mental disorder is a heterogeneous collection of psychotic conditions illustrated by positive delusions, hallucinations and negative symptoms. Some of the abnormalities found in the brain are from the ventricular enlargement and decreased cerebral cortical and hippocampal volume of the brain. There is also involvement of the temporal lobe and adequate evidence of a modification in normal cerebral asymmetries. The changes in the brain are due to synaptic, dendritic and axonal organization, which can be found all by, an ultrasound of the brain. Our genes and our environment can greatly affect the symptoms of Schizophrenia. Most cases of Schizophrenia are associated with your genes and runs in your family. Ten percent of people who have a blood first degree relative with this disorder like a parent, brother, or sister are likely to have the disease. Those who also have a second-degree relative who had the disorder like an aunt, uncle, cousin, or grandparent are also likely to get the disease through genetics. In addition to this, the risk of developing Schizophrenia becomes higher with identical twins. We inherit our genes from our parents. Although their have been many studies about the causes of