Schizophrenia is a disease that effect many people in our country. There are many types of schizophrenia including catatonic schizophrenia, which causes a person to be extremely withdrawn, negative and isolated, and causes them to have marked psychomotor disturbances. Another type is Disorganized schizophrenia, which causes the person to be verbally incoherent and may have moods, and emotions that are not appropriate to the situation. Hallucinati

Physical changes in the brain have been identified in some patients with schizophrenia. Such changes in the structure and function of the brain have been identified by the analysis of brain tissue after death, as well as by new brain imaging techniques that can be used to examine the brain while the person is alive. Early CT-Scan studies showed abnormalities in many patients with schizophrenia. These were mainly asymmetries of the brain and ventricular system, especially affecting the frontal lobes and the left hemisphere. The greater the observed changes, the greater the severity of the person's thought disorder and auditory hallucinations. Research suggest that in schizophrenia there is a deficit in the regulation of brain activity so that the brain over-responds to the many signals in the environment and lacks the ability to screen out unwanted stimuli. At the same time, there is a decrease in the size of the temporal lobes that process sensory inputs and make it possible for a person to develop new and appropriate behavior. While the techniques discussed in this section provide clues conc

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