Schizophrenia :: science

This intellectual disorder. However, it is proven that one is more apt to triumph schizophrenic disorder if there is a member in their family that has had this disease already leaving those who do not have a family member with schizophrenia to be very unlikely to acquire it. Another way of getting schizophrenia in the inherited sense is through a dietetic factor. This would mean that a certain fare would trigger schizophrenia in a household present in the member of the family that eats that food (Torrey 80). Early in this disease, there may be obsession with religion, matters of the supernatural, or abstract causes of creation. Speech may be characterized by unclear symbolisations. Later, words and phrases may become puzzling, and these can only be understand as part of the persons private fantasy world. mint who have been ill with schizophrenia for a long time oftentimes have speech patterns that are disoriented and aimless and deficient of mean to the casual observer. Sex ual activity is frequently altered in mental disorders. Homosexual concerns may be associated with all psychoses but are close to prominent with paranoia. Doubts concerning sexual identity, exaggerated sexual needs, altered sexual consummation and fears of conversancy are prominent in schizophrenia. The process of regression in schizophrenia is accompanied by increased self-fixation, isolation, and masturbatory behavior. The schizophrenic person finds himself or herself in a painful quandary. He or she retreats from personal intimacy or closeness because of the intense fear that closeness will be followed by rejection or harm. This retreat from intimacy leaves the person lonely and isolated. This dilemma often becomes the care-takers dilemma. The care-taker wishes to form a productive emotional trammel net but at the same time seeks to lessen the persons anxiety. The schizophrenic person, who moves toward emotional closeness, will eventually increase anxiety. The dopamine specu lation of schizophrenia is based on the action of the neuroleptic drugs, better know as antipsychotic drugs. Neuroleptics are the drugs of choice for treating the symptoms of schizophrenia. The neuroleptics are believed to block the dopamine receptors in the brain, limiting the activity of dopamine and reducing the symptoms of schizophrenia. Amphetamines, just the opposite, call forth dopamine transmission. Amphetamines produce an excess of dopamine in the brain and can provoke the symptoms of schizophrenia in a schizophrenic client. In hulking doses, amphetamines can simulate symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia in a nonschizophrenic person. nearly symptoms of schizophrenia are due basically to hyperdopaminergic activity.