Tara Sattar
It has been stated that the discussion of the cure of mental illness discussion is purely a myth. This becomes truer as the mental health situation keeps getting severe, according to an article printed in motherboard.com, it is said that many of the larger segments of the schizophrenic symptoms that are called negative symptoms are not even treatable and it is often said that the cure for this is hard to comprehend. Nuking the gigantic hydra that schizophrenic can be curative is next to impossible.
But a group of researchers headed by Lawson Health Research Institute’s Lena Palaniyappan, they discovered that the brain is competent of reorganizing its thoughts and ideas that might escort the brain to recover y from the schizophrenia. In a way this means the brain cures itself.
The activities of the brain lie in the varying thicknesses of the brain’s cortical layer. It was seen that the disorders were more prominent in the brain activities of the schizophrenic people. The neural degeneration is the cause of schizophrenia, it has been suggested. But the concept is still under debate.
Vigorous changes in the brain activity are monitored with the help of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The schizophrenic people tested before and after the onset psychosis show that the illness is related to the clinical features, Palaniyappan says. Surprisingly, these neuroanatomical changes are pondered to be progressive. It also indicates a worsening pathophysiolgical progression.
The tissue loss of the process of schizophrenia is controversial. The MRI study conducted on the schizophrenic brain shows that the neurodegeneration occurs at such an extreme rate that it is likely that if this continues then there will be no brain matter left in about a decade or two. On the contrary, the loss of the tissue doesn’t quite add up to the deterioration of the patient’s illness.
While highlighting this evidence, the neuroprogression will be limited in time and in spatial distribution. The changes will occur alongside compensatory changes, writes Palaniyappan.
In other words, the brain heals. It has the propensity.
Although, previously, the researchers have seen the grey matters coincide with the clinical improvements. What is difficult to figure out is finding the relationship of the changes in the activity in one part of the brain with the other parts of the brain. So far, the researchers are focusing on the degeneration and regeneration of the parts in which the processes occur the most. The research team of Palaniyappani used pattern analysis to look at how random variables change together.