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Originally posted by Aelia Jusa:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Unforunately Schitzophrenia is a degenerative brain disease with no cure. No amount of medication can change the way brain gradually becomes deformed because of the disease. Seeing the comparitive brains scans between a healthy brain and the schiztophrenic brain was an eye-opener for me.
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Well that's not necessarily true. The scans and autopsies of brains of people with schizophrenia are seriously confounded by the medication that is taken, both prescribed and self-medicated which affects the brain enormously (also when institutionalisation was more common, ECT). For example the enlarged ventricles that used to be thought of as a cause (or consequence) of having schizophrenia we now know can't be explained as that because they could be due to medication. Same with cerebral atrophy that is often seen. Studies of pre-medication brains often don't show the same effects, and complicating it still, brains of people who have been on medication sometimes don't show abnormalities either. It is not always a 'degenerative' disease either - about 30% of people have one schizophrenic episode and never have another. [/QUOTE]Thanks, thats interesting to know! I'm not the mental health professional in the family, my Fiance is, so my knowledge base is lacking things like a masters degree in Psycology!