behavior once his/her mental state has disintegrated. With these come several changes in behavior patterns. There are different types of behavior one called catatonic schizophrenia which is a mode of behavior that puts the patient in a sputtering and inactive state, and the other being disorganized schizophrenia, putting the person in a state of chaotic emotional behavior. The patient has unpredictable, unexpected and random emotional reactions. These patterns will only occur once the patient has a real disintegration of condition.Now, to get to the critical points, which is the organic pathology of the disease. As mentioned in the introductory paragraph the goal is to relate the organic pathology of the disease to the treatment of the disease. There is evidence that schizophrenia is a chemical disorder that is a result of a chemical imbalance in the neurotransmitters. These chemicals are the same ones that allow the neurons to communicate with the brain. When these transmitters are imbalanced it sends the entire systems into a tailspin. The main suspect for the malfuction is the neurotransmitter called dopamine. This theory says that the cause of schizophrenia is onslaught of increased dopamine activity in the brain. The strongest evidence that supports is the most common treatments of schizophrenia. The treatment of dopamine activity is most often used to treat schizophrenia. Doctors prescribe anti-psychotic drugs to block out some sort of neurotransmitter. In use with schizophrenia, the anti-psychotic blocks the release of dopamine to the synapse, the more of the release of the dopamine is blocked, the more effective the anti-psychotic treatment. For about the last 40 years the most prevalent and successful treatments have stemmed from anti-psychotics. The drug chlorpromazine (Thorazine) and has decreased the psychotic systems and stifled their recurrence. This is certainly not a cure, as finding say that 20-30% of ...
