Schizophrenia
...may require triggers to set it off, such as: complications during pregnancy, pregnant mother exposed to virus during brain development stage, or an extreme amount of stress. Even if these situations do not occur, a child who has a parent with schizophrenia still has ten times the chance of developing the disease. If both parents have the disease, their child’s chance of getting it is multiplied by forty. If someone does inherit the disease it causes a chemical imbalance in the brain. This imbalance affects the number of neurotransmitters in the limbic region, which is responsible for basic human functions like fear, rage, pleasure, memory patterns, and the want for sex and food. In short, it creates problems with certain types of brain cells called inhibitory interneurons. Once a person has schizophrenia they undergo symptoms like delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, and disorganized behavior. For example, one might have two or more voices conversing with each other. All these symptoms cause the person to have incredible social dysfunctions. In order to effectively treat schizophrenia three precautions must be taken. Medication is vital to the treatment process. The drugs used are called neuroleptic drugs, which are used to treat psychotic diseases. Next, education must be given on the subject to prevent relapses from coming up again. And finally reha...