January 17, 2008
Brain Injury and Schizophrenia: How to Deal
One of the more rare side effects of a traumatic brain injury accident is the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Often times because an individual can damage particular parts of the brain it is not uncommon that in addition to other more well known side effects such as loss of memory and social ability that mental illness also accompanies an individual after such an incident.What is Schizophrenia?Schizophrenia (Greek for “shattered mind”) is a psychotic disorder that affects behavior, mood and thinking. Originally called the schizophrenias due to the association of several varying characteristics and personalities common with the illness. The most widely known symptom, auditory hallucination (”hearing voices”), may not even be present in all who have a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Psychologists break symptoms of schizophrenia into three categories:. Positive symptoms are behaviors that are not present in normal individuals. Other symptoms include hearing things, delusional though as well as sporadic thought.. Negative symptoms are symptoms showing loss of normal abilities. They include loss of ability to show or feel emotion, lack of motivation and trouble with speaking.. Neurocognitive defects are problems with brain function in areas such as memory, problem-solving, attention and social functioning.Schizophrenia Related to Brain Injury in PatientsScientists have […]
