Essay Inflammation In The Brain

Throughout this psychology course, there were many topics discussed that caught my interest; the main one that stood out was schizophrenia. The article I chose was Inflammation in the Brain is Linked to risk of Schizophrenia, study finds by ScienceDaily; posted on October 16, 2015, and the source is MRC Clinical Sciences Centre/Institute of Clinical Sciences (ICS) Faculty of Medicine, Imperial Coll. “Schizophrenia, like other mental health disorders, is a complex disease that we may know is caused by an interplay of genetics, behavioral and other contributing factors”(ScienceDaily). There are many factors and links causing schizophrenia and two of the factors based on this article are inflammation, and cells which is a majority of this article. Schizophrenia could to be associated with genetics that can reduce one’s chance, but there is not a specific trait in one’s heredity that causes schizophrenia to occur. In other words, schizophrenia can be a disease caused throughout many people. This article thoroughly explains the idea behind cells changing with those who have schizophrenia or are diagnosed with this disease. “Immune cells are more active in brains of people at risk of schizophrenia as well as those already diagnosed with the …show more content…
This showed the risk in which people would be diagnosed or the chances of one getting it. Although I did not learn about “positron emission tomography(PET) and pruning,” I got a better understanding based off of this article. PET “scans to measure levels of activity of immune cells in the brain”(ScienceDaily). And pruning is “the cells known as, microglia, respond to damage and infection in the brain, and are also responsible for rearranging the connections between brain cells so that they work as well as possible”(ScienceDaily). Therefore, I got an insight on a measure in which tracks schizophrenia and connections in the