Schizophrenia Facts

Today, schizophrenia is a disease that can be successfully treated, but witch has no cure. To find a cure, scientists must find the cause of schizophrenia, and more and more research is done in this direction.

Schizophrenia is a brain, a mental disorder, while studies have led scientists to analyze the brain. For that are necessary for many sophisticated machines and very expensive. This kind of research is done in the largest medical centers and institutions that can afford this technology.

They use computer technology, magnetic resonance imaging and positron example computer to see the brain structure and activity, comparing patients living with brain dead patients. In addition, they analyze the brains of normal people with the brains of patients with schizophrenia.

Why are they doing this? To see the differences between the brains of normal people and schizophrenic patients' brains, for more specific were the differences, and to see what we have to deal and find the treatment.

In their research, it appears that:

The brains of people with schizophrenia are smaller than normal people. Also, after their death in patients with schizophrenia brains are distorting the brain faster than normal people.

The prefrontal lobe of schizophrenics are sometimes atrophied or is developed abnormal.

The brains of patients with schizophrenia or the dopamine producing well, or are very sensitive to dopamine (dopamine is a neurotransmitter think through causes of schizophrenia).

Another important area of research is related to genetics. There seems to be ten genes in the pathology of schizophrenia. Neuregulin 1 is one of them. role of hereditary familial predisposition is an important point of the study too.

Other causes may be a viral infection in pregnant women from exposure to toxic gases (such as lead) for pregnant women, certain autoimmune ills can play an important role.