Psychotic Disorders
Psychotic disorder develops as a result of inherited or acquired impairment of brain functions.
A traumatic, cerebrovascular, degenerative or metabolic event that disrupts the frontal, temperal and limbic regions in particular. It can be observed in clinical practice that it can create a picture similar to schizophrenia.
As a result of the examinations performed in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, organic disorders were detected in 15%. The most common cases were alcohol and drug abuse, syphilis (syphilis), sarcoidosis (TM), cerebral infarction, Huntington's chorea, and subdural hematoma.
- Huntington's chorea, hypoparathyroidism, and stage 3 syphilis cause a psychotic picture.
- Epilepsy and brain tumors are often seen together with psychosis.
- In sensitive people, infectious diseases, brain damage, substance addiction, and psychosis may occur.
- Some organic disorders, psychiatric patients. are found together. For example; Ventricular enlargement is responsible for psychotic disorders as well as cognitive negative symptoms, abnormal involuntary movements and neurological findings.
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