Drug use and Schizophrenia Melody Estay Google.com
What is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia-a long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.(google.com) Schizophrenia as an illness-represents a “concept” that is constantly and currently concerning not only the professionals but also the mass of the population, being the center of the psychiatry in the clinic, justice and research departments.(ebscohost)
Little bit about schizophrenia Schizophrenia often debuts in in the early adulthood and is characterized by psychotic systems that have a chronic evolution There are two types of symptoms from schizophrenia and they are categorized in positive and negative symptoms. Google.com
Symptoms Google.com Positive Negative Paranoia Thought disorder Hallucinations Delusions Apathy Lack of emotion Unable to function socially Google.com
Causes Google.com Drug Use Without Drug Use Effects of conventional antipsychotic medications on dopamine receptors. Drugs that block N-methyl-D- asparate(NMDA) glutamate receptors cause not only positive symptoms such as paranoia and thought disorder also negative symptoms; amotivation and blunted affect.(ebook) Genetics Brain chemistry Environment Google.com
What a Schizophrenic Might Hear Watch video for sound. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU- Ajwbok
Conclusion Tendency of dopamine agnostics to lead to hallucinations and delusions that looked a lot like schizophrenia. The abuse of illicit and non illicit pharmacological drugs affect almost 50% of all the patients with schizophrenia. Cocaine and amphetamines increases anxiety and psychotic symptoms overall. Google.com
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