schizophrenia

What is Schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe mental disorder that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. People with schizophrenia may seem like they have lost touch with reality. Although schizophrenia is not as common as other mental disorders, the symptoms can be very disabling this mental disorder affects more than 21 million people worldwide.

what is the cause?

The causes of schizophrenia are not known, but it is thought that variation in multiple genes contributes to the risk of developing this mental illness, the brain chemistry and the development also contribute to the development of this mental illness.

Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia include false perceptions called hallucinations. Auditory hallucinations of voices are the most common hallucinations in schizophrenia

Are males or females more likely to get schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia affects men and women equally but men tend to experience symptoms earlier than women.

why i chose it?

I chose this mental disorder because I was struck me by the case of John Nash what was an american mathematician who was awarded witch the nobel prize in economic. i discovered this case for the famous movie "A Beautiful Mind" a beautiful movie that tells the life of this mathematician.

but he never let this mental illness get in the way of his investigations, whenever he was interned (because of his illness) and recover the sense of reality he returned to his investigations until he had a relapse in this mental illness.