Cognitive, structural and functional brain changes in a model of psychotic relapses

Schizophrenia is a serious nerodevelopmental disease with many sophisticated symptoms. One of its characteristics are relapses which are currently surrounded by consensus that each relaps causes further structural and functional defecits and can even lead to loss of grey matter. Recently, studies of cognitive deficit became prominent and increased the number of possible methods to study schizophrenia. Animal models are used for studying this phenomenon and focuses on neurobiological processes and cellular metabolism and its research is crucial to developing new ways of treatment and understanding schizophrenia. This review mainly focuses on relapses and how they affect progression of this desease. Key words: schizophrenia, psychosis, relaps, neurobiological progression, energy metabolism, cognitive deficit, animal model