My sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just leaving high school, and she was 19. …show more content…
It involves limiting the progression of disease by relying on the earliest possible delivery of interventions and staging a framework that encompasses a broader range of clinical phenotypes to organize and validate data. Research using empirical data from known schizophrenic cases can provide ‘risk assessment’ to each individual case, by identifying well known risk factors such as genetics and obstetric complications along with developmental and behavioral problems in childhood, psychopathology and other indicators such as changes in social behavior, neurophysiology such as EEG to identify schizophrenic characteristics, and neuroimaging such as MRI, showing structural changes in the brain, to improve early detection of the beginning disease. Several staging/interview-based checklists are designed to cover general mental illness risks, not necessarily psychosis. These are important, because there is a cross-sectioning between various problems and perspective disorders that follow that same developmental identifiers as