Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects intentions. People with schizophrenia have difficulty in creating own and interpreting others' intentions. Human actions can occur in response to externally acquired information and/or as a result of internal volition based on internal motivation. A central monitoring brain system distinguishes between the two when actions are made creating the sense that a person’s action is the consequence of his or her intention. In schizophrenia, there is a deficit in this central monitoring brain system such that actions from willed intentions are mistaken as being derived from external informational sources. There is evidence towards cortical hyperexcitability in schizophrenics (glutamate chaos in the brain) because of a lack of inhibition as a background related to the anomalous manner to process information and inability to infer intentions behind pieces of information. This intentional chaos produces the belief that one’s actions are caused by others, that certain thing have intentional significance for the person and to attribute negative intentions to others. In schizophrenia, one may feel compelled to act even against one’s conscious intentions. This CEREBRART work explains these ideas artistically.
In his book Schizophrenia The Sacred Symbol of Psychiatry, professor Szasz says "There is, in short, no such thing as schizophrenia". Othwer scientists say "Schizophrenia is not a splitting of the brain into multiple parts". This cerebrart work tries to explain these ideas artistically. But different aspects of the usefulness of chaos theory to an understanding of schizophrenia are still discussed in scientific community e.g. "Are chaotic attractors diagnostic markers for schizophrenia or in reality, any human brain operates on the edge of chaos?".
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ReplyDeleteCurrently, about one in every 200 people around the world has a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Glutamate chaos in the brain seems to be found much more often.
DeleteFor 2013 and beyond there have been major changes to the Psychiatry codes.
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