Biological explanation for schizophrenia


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Gottesman (1991) found that the incident rate for schizophrenia in the general population was 1%, if the sibling had schizophrenia is 8%, if one parent has schizophrenia is 16% and if both parents have schizophrenia it's?
46%
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Gottesman and Shields (1972) found that the probability of a twin having schizophrenia if its twin has the disorder is 9% in dizygotic twins and what in monozygotic twins?
42%
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Tienan (2000) found that schizophrenia incident rates with adoptees who’s mothers had schizophrenia was 7% and whos mothers didn't have schizophrenia was?
2%
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Studies have shown that a family with highly expressed emotion makes schizophrenia more likely. This criticises.....
Family studies
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Joseph (2004) found that in many areas monozygotic twins are brought up and treated more similarly than dizygotic twins. This criticises
Twin studies
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Jacobs argues that adoptive parents would know if the birth parents were schizophrenic or not and that most wouldn’t adopt this child. This criticizes....
Adoptive Studies
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The dopamine hypothesis is supported by evidence from...
all of the choices
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New technology such as PET scans have found that ?
There is no evidence of different dopamine activities in people with schizophrenia
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Post mortem studies have found that
antipsychotic drugs elevated dopamine levels
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