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What Areas Of The Brain Are Affected By Schizophrenia
A Little Look Inside the Brain
One of the key strategies in the search for some biological basis for schizophrenia is to locate abnormalities in the structure of the brain. Comparing the size, volume, cell count and function of the brain can be undertaken during autopsy but, most significantly perhaps, the use of scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows investigation of the living brain. What have these investigations revealed? In this sharepost I highlight just a few of the approaches used in th...
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Schizophrenia: Causes
...auditory hallucinations (hearing voices). Not all patients have this deficit.Shrinkage in the limbic areas of the brain is associated with problems finding words. The limbic areas of the brain... Read more »Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Diagnosis
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...repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in the treatment of resistant auditory hallucinations in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis. J Clin Psychiatry. 2007 Mar;68(3):416-21.Crespo-Facorro B,... Read more »Schizophrenia: Other Treatments
...severe depression. Imaging studies have not found that current ECT techniques cause any damage to the brain's structure, and some doctors feel it is safer than drug therapy. A 2005 review of many... Read more »Schizophrenia: Risk Factors
...impairment. Such patients usually have functioned at a near-normal level until structural deficits in the brain break down.GenderAlthough schizophrenia affects both men and women, there are some... Read more »Images
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