“What happens to a child's brain during psychosis?”

Psychosis can be complicated to understand, but simply it’s too much Dopamine and the way I understand it is: “it’s like a misfire in your car.”

Now, a child’s brain has plasticity to it, so it can recover, but the worse the psychosis and the longer duration, the brain can actually lose neurons. Hope that helps with your understanding psychosis.

Thank you for your question on FADT. So, psychosis is a symptom in humans whereby the human perceives sensory stimuli as if these stimuli are actually real, however the stimuli are not real. For example the human may hear a voice of her aunt, and the human believes adamantly the aunt and her voice are real. What happens to the brain in that moment, is that the auditory center of the brain fires electric discharges, exactly as if that center was being triggered by a real sound. Typically the advise is that it is very important that any person who feels they are experiencing psychosis that they meet with a specialist for a definite diagnosis. I hope this helps. Thank you! Dr. Dodd MD