Schizophrenia is a common serious mental disorder that can alter people’s perceptions of reality. Some of these altercations may include:

• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Difficulty paying attention/disorganized speech/Reduced Speech
• Flattened Affect (Facial expressions aren’t expressed normally)
•  Lack of initiative

Some examples of such perception altercations are shown below:

Conversational Difficulties:

 

Hallucinations:

 

Delusions w/ Hallucinations:

 

Resources:

• https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-the-symptoms-of-schizophrenia-2953120
• https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia/symptoms-causes/syc-20354443#:~:text=Schizophrenia%20is%20a%20serious%20mental,with%20schizophrenia%20require%20lifelong%20treatment.

 

Featured Scientist:

Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)

“Every act of perception is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”

– Oliver Sacks, Musciophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

 

Oliver Sacks is a British neurologist who studied different medical conditions people suffered from through various case studies. Some of the most fascinating are highlighted below.

 

7 of Oliver Sack’s Most Fascinating Case Studies Written by Melissa Dahl