brain disease

Schizophrenia and Psychology

Schizophrenia is a chronic, relentless, and disabling brain disease. In fact, it can be defined as a disorder characterized by a range of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions that basically involves instability in the content of thought, perceptions, language and communication skills along with fluency of thought and speech and interpersonal functioning. More often, it affects an individual’s capacity to “think straight.” Thoughts may come and then may go easily and rapidly and an individual may not be able to focus on one thought for very long and may be easily distracted.

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