 FACT: Though "Whalens Infraction," a brain disorder which is said  to have accelerated Starghers schizophrenia was made up for the  movie, an infraction actually refers to an incomplete bone fraction  and affects bony tissues, not the brain. Cerebral infarction  {"infarct" instead of "infract"), or tissue death due to lack of  blood flow, does occur in the brain, but this is said to cause  schizophrenia