How Neurometric analysis is important at the treatment of schizophrenia as well as diagnosis?
Affiliation: Living Health Center for Research and Education, Istanbul Turkey Background: Schizophrenia is sometimes considered as most devastating of the mental illnesses because its onset is early in a patient’s life and its symptoms can be destructive to patient and to the patient’s family and the friends. EEG studies of schizophrenic patients indicate a higher number of patients with abnormal records decreased alpha activity, increased delta and theta activity and possibly more left sided abnormalities, and some coherence abnormalities. Schizophrenia affects 1 in a 100 people at some point during their lives and while there is no cure, it is treatable with antipsychotic drugs. The clinical Antipsychotic Trials for Interventions Effectiveness (CATIE) raise important questions about relapse, treatment resistance, minimizing adverse effects and improving treatment adherence. About 74 % of the patients discontinued the first medication prescribed within a year and they will have a rela
