Schitzophrenia
Schizophrenia is 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. (in general use) a mentality or approach characterized by inconsistent or contradictory elements.
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia symptoms consist of those afflicted hearing voices or experiencing full hallucinations, experiencing paranoia, hearing, seeing, feeling, smelling, or tasting things that are not really there, also poor body maintenance and thoughts of superpowers
Twins are mostly likely to share Schizophrenia
Men are 4 times more Likely to be Afflicted With Schitzophrenia
The Amount of Grey matter loss in Schizophrenic is double the loss in the average brain
rey matter contains most of the brain's neuronal cell bodies. The grey matter includes regions of the brain involved in muscle control, sensory perception such as seeing and hearing, memory, emotions, speech, decision making, and self-control. While 20% of all oxygen taken in by the body goes to the brain, 95% of that goes specifically into the grey matter.
Reaching out
There are a variety of treatments such as, Therapy, medication, and shock therapy
self-test
http://psychcentral.com/quizzes/schizophrenia.htm
Therapy and treatment centers
http://www.medicinenet.com/schizophrenia/springfield-il_city.htm