The goal is to find whether schizophrenia more often developed after TBI related epilepsy or naturally developed epilepsy.
Schizophrenia and epilepsy are both relatively common disorders in the United States with over 200,000 cases per year per disorder. Because of how common both of these disorders are it gave me the idea to research the link because each disorder effects hundreds of thousands of people. Epilepsy is a condition where seizures can be triggered due to nerve discrepancies. TBI otherwise known as a Traumatic Brain Injury is most commonly caused by blunt force to the cranium, which can result in brain damage. Dependent on the severity of the brain damage TBI can ultimately induce epilepsy. Epilepsy has been shown to potentially cause Schizophrenia is some cases. Schizophrenia is psychological disorder that prevents people to have the ability to separate reality from what is going on within their mind. Seemingly by the brain working in a different manner than a normal functioning brain, disorders can lead to other neurological and psychological issues. The purpose of adding TBI in with this research is to try and decide if