You will prepare and submit a term paper on Schizophrenia in Young Women and Men. Your paper should be a minimum of 1750 words in length. &nbsp.A difference is also observed if the condition onsets in premenopausal women, they respond to the antipsychotic drugs in a better way as compared to the postmenopausal women and also when compared to males. However, the difference observed in both of the genders is attributed to the hormonal composition and psychosocial factors. Estrogen is considered to play a protective role in females as it influences neurotransmission, as well as neurodevelopment. Women displaying the condition of schizophrenia also display hypoestrogenism or antipsychotic-induced hyperprolactinemia (Canuso & Pandina, 2007). The present article highlights the difference in the display of characteristics of the condition by both the genders and its implications in day to day life.

Schizophrenia is considered to be a varied set of many distinct ailments, which remain inadequately distinct but associated with widespread clinical characteristics. Three chief symptoms observed in the case of schizophrenia are positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms. Delusion and hallucinations are categorized under positive symptoms of schizophrenia and these are not related to the normal mental makeup of the individual. On the other hand, negative symptoms correspond to discrepancies in normal activities comprising rounded influence, impecunious language, antisocial conduct, and reduced enthusiasm. Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia involve deficient operational memory and cognitive management of actions that frequently confirm to be enormously disabling. Existing antipsychotic drugs are effective only for positive symptoms and are found to be ineffective against the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Research studies reveal that both men and women are affected at an equal proportion by schizophrenia, however, males are found to develop the symptoms prior to the females. Moreover, the onset of symptoms of schizophrenia is more prevalent in females prior to males if they set at later stages of life indicating the fact that the onset of symptoms in both of the genders is age-dependent (Brunton et al., 2010).