And it's important, if you try to model this, you can think about normal development as a loss of cortical mass, loss of cortical gray matter, and what's happening in schizophrenia is that you overshoot that mark, and at some point, when you overshoot, you cross a threshold, and it's that threshold where we say, this is a person who has this disease, because they have the behavioral symptoms of hallucinations and delusions.
ここからが大事です 通常の成長過程では 皮質量や皮質灰白質が 減少する事が分かるでしょう 統合失調症ではどうかというと 過剰に減少しています そしてある時点で 閾値を越えてしまうんです 病気である事に気付くのは その時です 症状が行動に表れるからです 幻覚や妄想と言った物です