According to study stress can affect people with schizophrenia differently

Firstly stress affects everyone and is not good for health as well. Now a new study has stress affects the brain and body of schizophrenic people differently as compared to people without mental illness.


Dr. Christin Schifani said, “We found a disrupted stress response in people with schizophrenia, which did not occur in either healthy individuals or people at clinical high risk for developing psychosis.”


Dr. Romina Mizrahi said, “The fact that we see this disrupted stress response in people with schizophrenia, but not in people at high risk for psychosis, suggests an opportunity to intervene to prevent schizophrenia. As most people with schizophrenia experience psychosis, identifying differences between people at high risk for psychosis and those with schizophrenia may shed light on how schizophrenia develops and ways to prevent its onset.”


Dr. Mizrahi further added, “Our previous research had shown that people at high risk for psychosis and those experiencing the first episode of psychosis have abnormal, or increased dopamine release in response to stress in the striatum.”