Schizophrenia is hereditary and consists of 8 different brain disorders!

 74041 Management and treatment of schizophrenia has always been difficult with the cause being exactly untraceable. Although it is known that the risk of suffering from schizophrenia is hereditary, the specific genes that cause the disease had not be identified. Researchers have now found that schizophrenia consists of eight different types of brain disorders each of which has its own signs and symptoms, and is not one single disease. It is an important first step towards better diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia.
In this new study, the researchers identified various genes networks that contribute to the existence of eight types of schizophrenia. ‘Genes do not operate on their own, in an isolated manner,’ said study co-author Igor Zwir, researcher at University of Granada in Spain. ‘They rather work with each other as an orchestra,’ Zwir said. The study involved 4,196 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia besides 3,200 healthy patients who participated as control group. (Read: 5 symptoms of schizophrenia that you should know)
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‘What we did with this research is identify the manner in which the genes interact with each other, in an orchestrated manner in the case of healthy patients, or disorganised, as happens in the cases that lead to the different types of schizophrenia’, the authors said. The researchers divided the patients according to the type and seriousness of positive symptoms (such as different types of hallucinations or deliriums), or negative symptoms (such as lack of initiative, troubles in organising thoughts, or lack of connection between emotion and thought). In parallel, scientists classified the profiles of these symptoms into eight qualitative types of different diseases according to the underlying genetic conditions. The study appeared in the American Journal of Psychiatry. (Read: Schizophrenia – manage it the Yoga way)
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