“ Is Schizophrenia really dangerous for our health and why does one need to take extra care due to this mental disorder?
Did you know that Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder affecting 20 million people worldwide
The major danger health danger that it posseses includes distortions in thinking, perception, emotions, language
Other mental health issues due to Schizophrenia include:
- The cognitive connection is distorted with brain not functionning to its full capacity where the attention span is very limited.
- The brain’s noise level rises when the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate becomes overactive in the prefrontal cortex and at the same time stimulates receptors for another neurotransmitter, dopamine, in the limbic region.
- Mental fluency and flexibility decreases.
- Affects the interaction between the centers of judgment and planning in the prefrontal cortex and the centers of emotion and memory in the temporal lobes and limbic system.
- The limbic system also contains the brain’s reward circuits — the place where we learn what to desire and how to recognize the cues indicating that something desirable is on hand. If patients with schizophrenia often seem to want too little (avolition), it could be the result of malfunctioning in the reward system.
But it should be kept in mind that every individual has symptoms of different level with severity ranging from milder to severe and same diagnosis cant be carried out every individual.
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