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Some recent research suggests that both conditions could be linked: those with epilepsy have more chances of developing schizophrenia and vice versa. Another study also relates the so-called schizophrenia with bipolar disorder. Here we tell you more details on these findings and what are the most visible symptoms of schizophrenia.

Epilepsy and schizophrenia are two words long, it sounds weird and written with E. Both relate to various health problems that are related to the brain. And these are not the only traits that they share: a new study found that, apparently, people with an illness are more likely to suffer another.

In particular, researchers in Taiwan have found that people with epilepsy are nearly eight times more likely to develop schizophrenia than those without diabetes, while those who suffer from schizophrenia are six times more likely to have epilepsy.

To reach these results, which were published in Epilepsia, researchers analyzed data from nearly 5,200 patients with schizophrenia and more than 11,500 with epilepsy. According to experts, this dual relationship could be due to genetic causes, environmental and neurobiological.

Similarly, another study has found a possible link (association) between schizophrenia and genetic-called bipolar disorder or manic depressive illness. In this case, it is a research conducted by scientists from the School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, United States, which was published in the journal Nature Genetics, in which genetic regions identified eleven (six of which were not discovered before), they have to do with the risk for these mental illnesses. These data provide new insights into the causes of both diseases.

Epilepsy is a nervous system condition that causes brief changes, sudden and repeated in the electrical activity of the brain. These changes are called epileptic seizures or episodes, commonly called seizures, and temporarily affect the way a person behaves, moves, thinks or feels.

For example, during a seizure the person may lose consciousness and stop breathing while your muscles contract, or you can stay awake but with a sense of smells and sounds distorted and blurred vision. These are just some symptoms, which depend on the type of epilepsy the question.

Bipolar disorder, on the other hand, is a mental disorder characterized by sudden changes in mood, ranging from the most euphoric (manic), in which the person is very active but scattered and not so productive, even the most declined (depression).

Finally, schizophrenia is a type of psychosis that makes the person unable to distinguish what is real and what is imaginary and affects social behavior of the sufferer because it modifies the ability to think clearly, manage emotions, act coherently, make decisions, perceive reality and interact with the environment and with others.

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