Understanding Schizophrenia | Leading Brain Expert Explains

Schizophrenia.

What is it?

Who gets it?

Why does it happen?

How do you diagnose someone with it?

Will I get schizophrenia?

Is schizophrenia contagious? Is it hereditary?

These are only a few of the questions we have been asked to address on our channel.

In this video we use a clinical example as a framework to understand the neurodevelopment, neuroscience, neuroanatomy, and clinical neurology of Schizophrenia.

You don’t want to miss this one. It is good.

The information in this video is true, real, accurate, and presented in a way that will engage your mind and memory in active learning.

After viewing this video you will know schizophrenia. You will have a greater depth and detail of knowledge regarding what is happening in the brain of those plagued with this devastating disease. You will be educated in a way that will empower you to share and teach others what you have learned; and we hope you will like, subscribe, and share our channel with your families, friends, and students.

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[Jen-oeju]

I've suffered from schizophrenia for the past 32 years. It has wrecked havoc with just about every facit of my life. I cant tell you enough how this illness feels. It is deceitful and very tricky to figure out. I studied psychology in college so I may have some more incite then others. It needs to be understood and not judged. Society is finally starting ti recognized that we are not responsible for inheriting this genetic illness. It is not our fault! Schizophrenics are incredibly smart, geniuses. When well treated, they can excel

[maplebacon]

How does this not have more likes? This is by far the best video on schizophrenia I have ever seen. I learned a lot! I normally just hear the same old information that you can get from Mayo Clinic or WebMD. This video is truly above and beyond.

[gfcg]

Maybe coming at this from the completely wrong 'angle' - it was only briefly touched on, but early childhood traumatic events have a huge lifelong impact on how life maps out. Unfortunately 'big pharma' funds/pushes all of this about 'disorders' - perhaps instead of what's wrong with a person, we should be asking 'what happened to you'?

[fallonrappaport]

This has to be the most thoroughest explanation for the laymen’s, thank you

[blackswan]

I'm on a waitlist to get mine treated without meds. The new stuff they're researching aims more toward a cure now! I'm so excited. Clinics are using medical keto, neurofeedback, biofeedback, TCMS, deep brain stimulation, ketamine infusions, and some others I can't remember. They're finally treating it like a whole body dysfunction.

[megmathisen]

My brother is schizophrenic. I wanted to watch your video but the music underneath was too distracting for me so I had to move onto other videos. Just letting you know because just talking about schizophrenia is interesting enough you don’t really need music.

[JungleJargon]

All of the things you addressed are side effects and symptoms rather than the cause of schizophrenia. The eye movements are also a symptom that's a result of the state of the "fight or flight" mindset. The root cause is the belief in many things that aren't true that conflict with the conscience. This results in the exaggerated dilation of the eyes, yet another extreme symptom.

[juliedevine]

Brilliant summary of this terrible illness, which has several types of presentations. As a mother of a son who was diagnosed, a couple years after his first presentation, i lived thru the horror of how this can present. I became a mental health nurse to better understand. He was absolutely tormented and i found the psych services slow to intervene. Anti psychotics may not be perfect, but he can now live in his skin without the torment. Im reluctant to interfere with that, even though i fully support alternative treatments. I wouldn't want him to be put thru any more trauma while giving these a try.

[braindeadobserver]

I dated a girl who was schizophrenic. She was a good friend. She was reasonably normal (nobody goes through life without scars ). She had 2 episodes (departures from reality) in the 20 years that I knew her. The one thing that I did see in her was that she did not have really deep emotions.

[DebbieMassey-phok]

Yes my son has all of these, he is 38 now, his problem started 3 yrs ago, like it happened overnight.

[valeriewhaley]

Extremely informative! My niece has shcizophrenia that started when she was 24. I know its because of trauma as a child from her mom. And also possibly from losing her Dad when she was 13. She is on medication and doing ok.

[ColleenC-nv]

Your discussion is profoundly resonant and helpful. I am heartbroken over my daughters battle with this cruel disease. 💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜🌻💜

[Mykee]

I was raised by a Schizophrenic mother, untreated with meds, it was a living hell, as I remember the terrible screams and fighting from the time I was a toddler. My Mother finished her tortured life at the age of 84, in a locked Alzheimer's ward. There was so much, anger, sadness and depression growing up in a home with all of this going on, with no sign of my mother's disease being corrected, cured or managed in anyway. It took me years to come to grips with my anger, and depression. My grandfather was 15 years older than my grandmother, and my grandfather died when my mother was 17years old, just a small clue, one factor as to why my mother and her brother developed schizophrenia. I wish the scientists, doctors could come up with a cure, but because of the brain complexity of not developing normally, may mean that they will never find a cure, other than identifying risk factors and avoid giving birth.

[sammyrnaj]

You killed your podcast with that racing & annoying background 'noise' right from the start! Ciao!

[jacquelinewaring]

very good indeed, I learned a lot, thank you!

[zaidarivas]

My son who overdosed 8 months ago got schizophrenia from canabis. I cannot believe they’ve legalized it with how bad my son was. He then tried every drug available and we think he may have died of fentanyl. I’m in NY and it took 7 months for the tox screen to be completed due to the backlog because of the amount of overdoses happening right now.

I had no idea I could have tested him for schizophrenia. I also had no idea it could be triggered by canabis. We knew the drugs may have triggered his illness but we didn’t know for sure.

Thank you for putting this together. People need to know.

[goblin]

The icd 10/11 is a better diagnostic tool than the dsm 5. The dsm 5 needs to be exchanged for something better.

[collettevest]

Happened to my brother at the age of seventeen back in the sixties. He had the eye movement pattern that the doctor mentioned. He died at 38 years old in Austin state hospital 😢 He went through hell…shock treatments and lots of different medications. He didn’t get the correct treatment and the disease rapidly progressed.

[chriswurm]

The most complete and comprehensive video on this subject i have ever seen. Thank you very much.

[yousefabbara]

You have great explanations I started have it in 31 after horrible experience in war and as immigrant