Schizophrenia In Early 20's

Schizophrenia is a mental disease, symptoms can begin as early as teen years, but is mostly seen in early and late adulthood, men can being to show symptoms in their early 20’s while women show symptoms in their late 20’s. Schizophrenia is known to cause people with this mental disorder to be unable to distinguish what’s real and what’s unreal, and requires lifelong treatment. It is known as a cognitive disorder in which causes behavior effects that are known to cause hallucinations, depression, disorganized speech, paranoia and delusions. There is no known cause for schizophrenia but is believed it could be brought on by genetics and environmental factors such as stress. Researchers believe that neurotransmitters (dopamine and glutamate) are …show more content…
The prefrontal lobes are associated with psychotic symptoms. Abnormalities are also seen in the hippocampus, temporal lobes, and amygdala. Evidence has also shown that abnormally low activity was also seen in the frontal lobe in which is responsible from decision making, planning, and reasoning. This mental disease can lead to relationship problems when a family member suffers from this disorder, due to the fact that people with this disease withdraw themselves from the world, they become paranoid of their surrounding and think that someone is out to get them, they also believe that there is nothing wrong with them causing family member’s to become frustrated, at the fact that they don’t want help and there is nothing they can do since they only can accept treatment on their own. But if they accept the help of treatment it can become depressing on the acceptance of realizing you have a mental …show more content…
Although Alzheimer’s disease is mainly seen in the elderly, it can also be seen in 1-10% of people in there 30’s. Alzheimer’s is considered to be a progressive, degenerative disorder of the cerebral cortex. It is known to interfere with cognitive and behavioral impairment that causes social and occupational functioning. The cortical degeneration is marked in the frontal lobes, but the atrophy occurs in all areas of the cortex. The cause of Alzheimer’s is still unknown, but there is factor’s that contribute to this disease, such as neurochemical factors, which include deficiencies in the neurotransmitters, acetylcholine, somatostatin, substance p and norepinephrine (“Pathophysiology made incredibly visual!” p. 76). As well as a viral factor, which are a slow, growing central nervous system viruses, trauma, and genetic factors. There are three types of tissues changes that are involved in Alzheimer’s disease; granulovascular degeneration, neurofibrillary tangles in the neurons, and neuritic plaques, which is outside of the neurons. Amyloid plaques are used to encode memory, and are in the hippocampus of the brain, it is also found in the cerebral cortex, which is used for decision making and thinking. Formation of the amyloid plaques primarily generates the onset of Alzheimer’s, but the process is still unknown as to whether plaques cause Alzheimer’s. Neurofibrillary tangles cause death of the