Treatments and advancements for those suffering from Schizophrenia as well as many other mental illnesses are constantly being developed or put into the research phase to test their effectiveness.
Recently in the June/ July 2006 issue of Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, high nicotine use has been linked to patients with Schizophrenia. Approximately 85% of those suffering from the mental condition are heavy smokers. This high use of nicotine has been the cause of a large number of mortalities. However, cigarette smoking has been proven to have beneficial effects on the negative symptoms that schizophrenia patient's experience. These recent studies have shown that those patients who smoke cigarettes may have less akathisia episodes, which are described as episodes of motor restlessness.
For many years in the past, those treating the mentally ill thought that the patients' awareness of his or her disorder and symptoms were very important in the treatment process.......
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