The Scientista Foundation
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Team
    • What We Do
    • Born Seekers Fellowship
  • My Campus
    • Find My Campus
    • Start A Chapter
    • Chapter Application
  • Advice Center
    • Career Blog
    • Plan Your Education
    • Tools/Resources
  • Get Inspired
    • Lifestyle Blog
    • Women in Science News
  • DiscovHER Science
  • Events
    • Symposium 2019
    • Symposium Testimonials
  • Join
    • Subscribe!
    • Internships
  • Donate
    • Our Sponsors
    • Sponsor Scientista!
    • University Membership
  • The Periodical
  • Home
  • About
    • About Us
    • Team
    • What We Do
    • Born Seekers Fellowship
  • My Campus
    • Find My Campus
    • Start A Chapter
    • Chapter Application
  • Advice Center
    • Career Blog
    • Plan Your Education
    • Tools/Resources
  • Get Inspired
    • Lifestyle Blog
    • Women in Science News
  • DiscovHER Science
  • Events
    • Symposium 2019
    • Symposium Testimonials
  • Join
    • Subscribe!
    • Internships
  • Donate
    • Our Sponsors
    • Sponsor Scientista!
    • University Membership
  • The Periodical
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

10/26/2014 0 Comments

What is Schizophrenia?

Picture
By: Ammara Virk

Schizophrenia is defined as a “chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder” that results in hallucinations, anxiety and agitation, among other symptoms (NIMH).

It turns out that Schizophrenia is not an entity in and of itself. While it is known that factors such as heritability and environment can influence the onset of schizophrenia, not much more is known about the complexity of this disease. Current research claims that schizophrenia may actually be a spectrum of eight separate diseases.

While researchers would normally look at individual genes when determining the link between schizophrenia and heritability, scientists at Washington University tested over 4,000 people who had schizophrenia and found that there were in fact, gene clusters and that these gene clusters were responsible for the eight distinct classes of schizophrenia.

To further the complexity, while there may be several separate gene mutations, they might only express themselves as one or two symptoms. “So…what’s causing hallucinations in one person might be different than what’s causing them in another,” (CNN).

So what could this mean for further treatment? At the very least, one might speculate that this will allow one to be able to treat schizophrenia more precisely, given that they are aware that it is not the exact same gene in each individual that is causing the symptoms.

CNN:http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/16/health/schizophrenia-eight-diseases/index.html?hpt=he_bn7

NIMH:http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia/index.shtml


0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    WELCOME, UMICH SCIENTISTAS! 

    Picture
      The University of Michigan Scientista Chapter is dedicated to providing every UMich Scientista with campus-related advice, news, articles, features and more. Browse through our website and join our mailing list to gain access to great resources and events!

    CAMPUS PICS

    WHAT'S NEW

    Tweets by @ScientistaUMich

    UPCOMING EVENTS

    PAST POSTS

    October 2019
    September 2019
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    August 2013

    SORT BY TAG

    All

    RSS Feed

scientista logo
About / Founders / Team / Join / Subscribe / Press / Campus/ Donate

About

Mission 
History 
Team 
Advisory Board 


Connect

E-Newsletter
Twitter
Facebook
Contact

Join

All Internships
Start A Chapter

Press

All Press
Harvard Crimson
Harvard Gazette
Bostinnovation.com

Partner

Partnership Inquiries
Sponsorship Inquiries

The Scientista Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved © 2011-2016 | Based in NY | contact@scientistafoundation.org
The Network for Pre-Professional Women in Science and Engineering
The Scientista Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) -- Donate!

Photo used under Creative Commons from Nomadic Lass