One of the most often asked questions from the study of schizophrenia is whether a person's gender played any role for an individual's weakness to this kind of psychological disorder.
Given that genetic factors played a crucial role in affecting one's risk factor to this mental illness, it would be interesting to discover and find out what level of importance gender had in all of this.
Sex and gender differences in this mental disorder have been explained for a long period of time, especially when it comes to age onset, its symptoms, and the course of disease.
Researches show that differences in brain structure and function have been reported.
In addition, there has been an increasing interest in gender-specific psychosocial influences and gender-sensitive treatment approaches.
Experts in the field of schizophrenia have long been conducting various researches to explain whether men or women are more likely to have schizophrenia as compared to the opposite sex.
What they were able to prove in the result of the study is that men and women react to schizophrenia in different ways, as well as the medication regimen or treatment plans.
Therefore, a male or female will have dissimilar chances of developing this mental condition and what treatments will work best for them.
The most distinguished difference between each gender is their reaction to certain type of antipsychotic medications.
Furthermore, the development for each individual also differs between genders.
Regardless of the differences in the reaction of males and females to the treatment for the mental disorder, mental health experts and physicians still advise the same treatment approach for both genders.
Despite the differences in the reaction of men and women to the treatment for the disease, health experts and physicians still recommend the same treatment approach for both sexes rather than being biased.
This psychological disorder is a category of psychosis.
Other disorders in this type are: the sudden display of psychotic behavior, sudden display of psychotic behavior, short-term type of psychosis, affective disorder affective disorder with psychotic features, delusional disorder, and organic psychosis.
Women suffering from schizophrenic symptoms have a different experience than men.
In most societies, they usually develop schizophrenia later then men do.
The longer the requisite duration of symptoms before a diagnosis, and the younger the age during the first onset after which the diagnosis can no longer be made, the more females are excluded from this diagnostic category.
The more requirement of functional deterioration is required to make the diagnosis, the fewer number of women will meet the full diagnostic criteria.
The more categorically presence of mood symptoms invalidates the diagnosis; therefore the fewer women will be diagnosed.
It is because the short period of symptoms, the occurrence of mood symptoms, lack of functional deterioration, and late onset are all more common in women with schizophrenia-like illnesses than in men.
In addition, researchers say that women acquire protection from estrogens which block dopamine receptors.
Moreover, when a woman is pregnant her estrogen levels are very high, and she hardly ever has trouble with symptoms until after she has given birth when her estrogen levels go down.
Given that genetic factors played a crucial role in affecting one's risk factor to this mental illness, it would be interesting to discover and find out what level of importance gender had in all of this.
Sex and gender differences in this mental disorder have been explained for a long period of time, especially when it comes to age onset, its symptoms, and the course of disease.
Researches show that differences in brain structure and function have been reported.
In addition, there has been an increasing interest in gender-specific psychosocial influences and gender-sensitive treatment approaches.
Experts in the field of schizophrenia have long been conducting various researches to explain whether men or women are more likely to have schizophrenia as compared to the opposite sex.
What they were able to prove in the result of the study is that men and women react to schizophrenia in different ways, as well as the medication regimen or treatment plans.
Therefore, a male or female will have dissimilar chances of developing this mental condition and what treatments will work best for them.
The most distinguished difference between each gender is their reaction to certain type of antipsychotic medications.
Furthermore, the development for each individual also differs between genders.
Regardless of the differences in the reaction of males and females to the treatment for the mental disorder, mental health experts and physicians still advise the same treatment approach for both genders.
Despite the differences in the reaction of men and women to the treatment for the disease, health experts and physicians still recommend the same treatment approach for both sexes rather than being biased.
This psychological disorder is a category of psychosis.
Other disorders in this type are: the sudden display of psychotic behavior, sudden display of psychotic behavior, short-term type of psychosis, affective disorder affective disorder with psychotic features, delusional disorder, and organic psychosis.
Women suffering from schizophrenic symptoms have a different experience than men.
In most societies, they usually develop schizophrenia later then men do.
The longer the requisite duration of symptoms before a diagnosis, and the younger the age during the first onset after which the diagnosis can no longer be made, the more females are excluded from this diagnostic category.
The more requirement of functional deterioration is required to make the diagnosis, the fewer number of women will meet the full diagnostic criteria.
The more categorically presence of mood symptoms invalidates the diagnosis; therefore the fewer women will be diagnosed.
It is because the short period of symptoms, the occurrence of mood symptoms, lack of functional deterioration, and late onset are all more common in women with schizophrenia-like illnesses than in men.
In addition, researchers say that women acquire protection from estrogens which block dopamine receptors.
Moreover, when a woman is pregnant her estrogen levels are very high, and she hardly ever has trouble with symptoms until after she has given birth when her estrogen levels go down.
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