Question

1. Explain what schizophrenia is and what causes it. This would include the hypotheses and brain anomalies.
2. Explain what affective disorders are.
3. What brain irregularities are involved in affective disorders?
4. Explain the causes of anxiety disorders.

Please answer all the question thank you;)

Answer 1

Schizophrenia is a serious long term mental disorder that impacts on person's feelings, thoughts, emotions, behaviour. Generally it occurs in men than a women.

The symptoms of schizophrenia: There have some positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia. These are described in below-

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia :

• Hallucinations : Basically hallucination is a perception of a person who beliefs that stimulus is present but in reality the stimulus is absent. As a example, person can perceive a particular stimulus (sound or light) that does not present in reality.
• Delusion : Basically delusion is a mental disorder, it is a wrong believe of a person. As a example people can have a belief about someone who is harmful to her.
• Disorganized Speech: People with disorganized speech have a problem of understanding speech. Their feeling of expression is completely different from a mentally healthy person, their sentences are very illogical, irrelevant and complex.

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia : There are some common negative symptoms of schizophrenia. These are like :

1. Socially issolated, lack of interest in social work or interaction, lack of motivation.
2. A high level of difficulty in focus a particular thing.
3. Inattentive, illogical thoughts and etc.

Causes of schizophrenia : There are some major causes involved in schizophrenia. These are described in below :

• Genetic cause : Parents who have long term schizophrenia, their child have high risk of possibility to affects in schizophrenia than a other parental child. Therefore gene factor is a major issue to determine schizophrenia.
• Obstetrical complications at child birth : Obstetrical complications at child birth can cause of schizophrenia. An obstetrical complications involved with retardation of fetal growth, inadequate oxygen during child birth, mother's diabetes, prematurity and etc.
• Infection of central nervous system in childhood : Infection of central nervous system in childhood can cause of high risk of schizophrenia or other serious mental disorder.
• Extreme trauma in childhood : A clinical research found that extreme level of trauma in childhood can increase high risk of schizophrenia. These are like:

1. Parental death or parental divorce
2. Sexual violence or emotional abuse.
3. Accident or serious event
4. End of a relationship etc

These experiences can cause of high risk of schizophrenia to a child in their early childhood.

• Consumption of drug :Consumption of drug can indirectly helps increase the risk of schizophrenia. Some particular drugs like cocaine, amphetamines and etc can increase the risk of schizophrenia and as well as people who recovered from schizophrenia, if they again starts consumption of drugs then symptoms are again arise.

Therefore these are the major causes of schizophrenia. These possible factors are involved with this mental disorder.