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Schizophrenia is thought to occur when a person has overactivity within this particular neurotransmitter system?
Dopamine is most involved in schizophrenia.
What is schizophrenia related to?
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder
What are the causes of residual schizophrenia?
Residual schizophrenia is caused by a partial recovery from schizophrenia. For an explanation of what causes schizophrenia, please see the related question.
Can schizophrenia be caused by smoking?
Smoking does not reduce the causes of schizophrenia. However, there is some indication that smoking can reduce either the symptoms of schizophrenia or the side effects of antipsychotic medications, or both, which may be why 70-90 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke. The semi-beneficial effects of nicotine on people with schizophrenia may be caused by increased levels of acetycholine, which increases mood, and glutamate, which improves memory, in the brain. Both mood and memory problems are prevalent among people with schizophrenia.
Is schizophrenia a chemical imbalance?
Schizophrenia is related to a chemical imbalance in the brain, but it has more factors than just the chemical imbalance.
Cell level in schizophrenia patients?
its the same. bt adrenaline levels decrease
Is Increased HDL levels are directly related to increased risk of a heart attack?
No, HDL is the "good" one, it is high levels of LDL that you want to avoid. High HDL, low LDL is considered the "heat healthy" situation.
What are the psychological factors of schizophrenia?
Drug use, a family member with schizophrenia or a related disorder, adolescence (in men) and being in your mid-twenties (in women), and your father being old when you were born are risk factors for schizophrenia.
There is evidence that the risk of schizophrenia is increased by?
exposure to viral illness during the second trimester of pregnancy
How is john Nash and schizophrenia related?
He got disanosed with schizophenia in 1958
How does psychosis in schizophrenia happen?
Psychosis in schizophrenia and perhaps schizophreniform disorder appears to be related to abnormalities in the structure and chemistry of the brain, and appears to have strong genetic links
How can people better understand schizophrenia?
The best way to better understand schizophrenia is to get to know someone who is coping with that diagnosis. It is very likely that someone in your circle of acquaintances has personal experience with some form of schizophrenia or a related mental illness.
