This may explain why people with schizophrenia are confused during their illness. The findings of the study will be published this month in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Information is received and sent to other parts of the brain in the thalamus.
This part of the brain has interested scientists studying schizophrenia because of the way it processes information. The thalamus gets information from the senses and filters it, passing it to the proper areas of the brain for processing. Schizophrenics often have a hard time processing information properly and therefore sometimes have an information overload in some parts of the brain. The rest of the volunteers were healthy. Thirteen of the people with schizophrenia had little or no experience taking antipsychotic medication.