Explanations of schizophrenia
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- Created on: 03-05-16 14:23
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- Explanations of schizophrenia
- Genetic
- We inherit schizophrenia through our genotype.
- Gottesman and Shield: concordance rates- 48% for MZ twins.
- Tienari: Diathesis stress model. We have a predisposition to develop SZ which only develops when we are in a family that has a abnormal/ stressful environment.
- Biomedical
- excessive amount of dopamine in the brain
- Dopamine is the main pleasure neurotransmitter
- When domaine levels are increased to decrease parkinson, patients were found to have SZ symptoms
- Cognitive
- Frith noted SZ may be linked with a deficient metarepresntation system.
- Also that there is a problem in the central monitoring system: Inability to generate willed and monitor willed action and generate and monitor the beliefs of others
- Genetic
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