Research Article
A Concise Study of Schizophrenia and Resting-state fMRI data analysis
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness in which people experience hallucinations and delusions. Reasons for happening schizophrenia are genetics, occur in a family, and it is heritable. It can happen due to the brain's inappropriate development due to complications at the time of birth due to the intake of drugs and an increase in the environment's stress level. Diagnosing critical psychological disorders like schizophrenia, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has always been proved its beneficial usage. This technique measures the indirect neural activity of the brain tracing the oxygenation level of the blood flow. Resting-state fMRI measures the same in the rest condition of the patient while doing no cognitive task. In this review article, we first describe schizophrenia and a brief description of its occurrence, cause, symptoms, and treatment. Secondly, we describe the fMRI technology followed by the resting-state analysis, and finally, we describe the methods of data analysis briefly to diagnose schizophrenia with resting-state fMRI. This review article may act like a start-up for the research in this domain.
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