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The two topics that intreested me the most in this chapter was schizophernia and alzheimer's.Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is often first diagnosed in the late teen and early adult years. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawl, cognitive problems, and disorded thinking. This mental illness is diagnosed based on family history and interviews. These interviews can give the psychiatrist insight into how much the patient has changed mentally. These changes can range from withdrawing from friends, family activiteis and entertaining odd thoughts or ideas that may or may not have happened. Some hallucinations or delusions can be dangerous to the person or to others around them. A schizophrenic may believe that someone or something is after them. A friend of mine grew up with a schizophrenic brother. She told me one night when she was a teenager she woke up wih her brother standing over her with a butchers knife. She was unharmed, but after that the brother had to be instiutionalized for a period to determine what was wrong with him. The family didn't know what was wrong with him and this was back in the 1960 s when mental illness was rather taboo. Schizophrenics can appear emotionless and zombie like or be jumpy and aggitated. They are given antipsychotics and should be in therapy for emotional and cognitive reasons.Alzheimer's disease is a debilitating mental disease and is a progressive form of dementia that disturbs one's daily life in all aspects. People who get this can have a family history of it or it comes about as old age advances, however, this is not a normal part of the aging process. This disease can only be diagnosed by autopsy. An early sign of this disease is short term memory loss. As the disease advances a person can exhibt personality changes, aggression, loss of judgement and lack in personal care. In most cases, a person who is severe will be living in a 24 hour care facility as family cannot take care of their needs any more. My Grandpa had to move into a assisted living facility because my Grandma couldn't take care of him properly anymore. Sometimes he would recognize me and sometimes not but at least he wasn't the aggressive type and enjoyed my company eventhough he had no idea who I was. Autopsy findings have shown a plaque build up on and around neurons. This interrupts communication between neurons and neurotransmitters. Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter that is affcted by this disease and decreases in this transmitter is related to memory loss.
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