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Causes of schizophrenia The causative factors for schizophrenia are extensively said to have a neurobiological base.... Individuals in whom schizophrenia begins in the later years of their 20's or 30's exhibit less evidence of cognitive damage or structural brain irregularities.... According to this theory, hyperactivity in the dopaminergic pathways of an individual's brain causes schizophrenia.... He further explains that later on in life, women are more likely to have a “first break” and as a result, around one third of them have a commencement of ill health after the age of thirty....
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The paper "The Cause of schizophrenia, an Unsolved Mystery in Psychiatry" assert that studies from the current paper offer some insights into the weaknesses of existing theories and approaches of studying the single underlying cause of schizophrenia.... As a result, the number of available studies on the neurological basis of schizophrenia exceeds the number of researches of other mental illnesses.... This essay discusses the neurological basis of schizophrenia and tries to determine if there is a single underlying cause....
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Research "Pathophysiology of Schizophrenia" studies the schizotypal subjectsus as well the symptoms of schizophrenia that can be interpreted as the result of a defect in the mechanism that controls and limits the contents of consciousness.... ccording to this theory, most of the symptoms of schizophrenia are the result of having excessive levels of dopamine, especially in the mesolimbic pathways of the brain.... eurotransmitters/ Disconnection Syndrome: The biological models of schizophrenia emphasize neurochemical dysregulation or anatomical changes in the brain....
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Recent research and data present a complex image of brain dysfunction with alterations in anatomic structures as well as protein synthesis and functional disturbances.... This essay "Schizophrenia" will discuss the biological basis of schizophrenia and what has led to that belief.... It is known from the imaging techniques being used that there are abnormalities in the construction of the brain but how do those abnormalities relate to the psychological issues....
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NIMH (2009) stated three broad categories of symptoms of schizophrenia as positive, negative and cognitive.... According to World Health Organization (2012), about seven out of every one thousand adult population are affected by some degree of schizophrenia, primarily between the ages of fifteen to.... he various kinds of schizophrenia, according to symptoms experienced by the stricken person, are paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, residual and undifferentiated disorder....
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The author of the "Schizophrenia Mental Disorder" paper argues that the understanding of schizophrenia among both medical professionals and the general public has come a long way since the Medieval era yet it remains a widely misunderstood mental disorder.... Too often those with schizophrenia are mistakenly accused of drug abuse because some of the symptoms are similar.... Prevailing opinion among researchers is that drug abuse does not cause schizophrenia....
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To form response on a perceived tickling, nerve endings send electrical signals to the brain, and to know what happens next, a variety of studies appeared on tickling, exploring the phenomenon.... (1999) were one of the first to define specific brain areas, mostly activated when tickling, using MRI and FMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging).... Scientists defined, that the most responsible for tickling (as well as for another tactile stimulus) brain areas are the somatosensory cortex and anterior cingulate cortex, - the areas, which are originally responsible for analyzing a tactile activity and for pleasurable feelings (Blakemore et al....
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Brain injury refers to the physical damage that occurs to living brain tissue due to external and mechanical force.... After brain injury, neurological damage occurs and this causes cognitive impairment after temporal cortex damage after the injury.... The brain injury can also result in frontal lobe damage and this may result in attention deficits and loss of executive function.... Additionally, damage to the frontal lobe as well as the limbic system can result in changes in emotional function....
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