Teens typically experience a burst of cortical gray matter growth at puberty followed by a wave of gray matter loss extending in
to their early twenties. teens diagnosed with schizophrenia experience ____. a. loss of abnormally low levels of gray matter
b. loss of gray matter that progresses like a drip through midlife
c. loss of gray matter that spreads in waves into their early twenties
d. no loss of gray matter
The answer is c. loss of gray
matter that spreads in waves into their early twenties.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious mental
disorder that affects a person’s behavior, thinking and emotion. It may result
in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and extremely disordered thinking
and behavior that affects daily functioning. It can often be a lifelong
struggle. Schizophrenia commonly strikes between the ages of 16 and 30, and
males tend to show symptoms at a slightly younger age than females.
