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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia . By: Hannah King . What is Schizophrenia? .

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Schizophrenia

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  1. Schizophrenia By: Hannah King

  2. What is Schizophrenia? • Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe and disability of the brain. They believe that other people can read their minds, control their thoughts and feelings, or plot to harm them. They also talk in broken sentences that do not make sense or will not talk at all.

  3. How is Schizophrenia Inherited? • Patients who have first-degree relatives with this disorder are more likely to inherit this disorder than the general population. Scientist believe that several genes are associated with the risk of the disorder, but the gene does not cause it by itself. Patients with Schizophrenia have seen to have rare genetic mutations. With many mutations, the different genes help with the disruption of the brain.

  4. Schizophrenia Inherited Continued • Studies show that Schizophrenia may play part in a gene that is key to making brain chemical malfunctions. This problem will affect the part of the brain that develops higher functioning skills. Also to develop this disorder can be influenced by the environment or social factors.

  5. Inheritance

  6. Concerns of Schizophrenia • What are some tests to help tell a patient if they have Schizophrenia? • There are laboratory test that include a blood count, other blood test to help eliminate other conditions with similar symptoms, screening of alcohol or drugs, and a CT scan or MRI scan. • A doctor or health care provider will check mental status by observing appearance and demeanor. Also by asking a series of questions about thoughts, moods, delusions, hallucinations, or potential violence.

  7. Concerns of Schizophrenia • What are the different types of treatment? • Antipsychotic Medications help with hallucinations or delusions, psychotic symptoms, and breaks with reality. These medications have side effects of drowsiness, dizziness, blurred vision, rapid heartbeat, senility to the sun, skin rashes and menstrual problems for women.

  8. Concerns of Schizophrenia • How to cope with Schizophrenia? • With a patient coping with Schizophrenia, there will be a hard time believing they have the disorder. The brain is effected by the patient believing something is right or correct, when others see that the patient’s thinking isn’t clear. Let the patient become familiar with the disorder to help them tell what is truly going on in their brain. Help them to take their medications to help them from having delusions or hallucinations; keep them stable. Help them to stay within the social community to keep them from shutting themselves from the world. Keep a positive atmosphere around them to keep them from being insulted accidentally. Also keep a unstressful environment. Help them to stay in activities that they enjoy. And overall keep them from going into a very bad mental stage.

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  10. Sources • http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/epigen/szwhatis.htm • http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml • http://mentalhealth.about.com/od/schizophrenia/a/sz2.htm • www.google.com

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