Substances that make a person addicted can cause schizophrenia by affecting brain chemistry. Stating that the substances used increase dopamine in the brain, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz underlined that the increased amount of dopamine leads to many psychiatric diseases, especially schizophrenia.
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Üsküdar University NPISTANBUL Hospital Psychiatry Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz made important evaluations about the relationship between addiction and schizophrenia.
Increased dopamine in the brain leads to psychiatric diseases
Noting that addiction can cause schizophrenia because the substances that make the person addicted affect brain chemistry, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz,
"These substances increase dopamine in the brain. Increased dopamine in the brain causes many other psychiatric diseases and schizophrenia is one of them. Even if the person has a genetic predisposition to a psychiatric disease, the use of the substance even once can cause that disease to occur. Sometimes the underlying psychiatric illness can lead to substance abuse. Sometimes substance use can cause additional psychiatric illnesses. Sometimes two different illnesses appear independently of each other at the same time due to a biological and genetic predisposition. Sometimes psychiatric illnesses occur unnoticed in individuals. Since the anxiety disorder, anxiety disorder or depression in the individual occurs without the person realizing it, the person may turn to substance abuse in order to cope with these feelings or thoughts."
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Genetic predisposition increases risk of schizophrenia
Üsküdar University NPISTANBUL Hospital Psychiatry Specialist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gül Eryılmaz gave the following information about the factors that cause schizophrenia:
"On the basis of schizophrenia, the most important factor that has come to the fore in research so far is genetic predisposition. While schizophrenia is seen in 1 percent of the general public, it is seen in 10 percent of those whose first-degree relatives (siblings, parents, parents) are schizophrenic."
