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Whaley 2001

found inter-relater reliability correlations in the diagnosis of schizophrenia as low as 11

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Harrison et al 1997

reported tat incidents of schizophrenia were higher in African-Caribbean groups than in whites, which could have been due to poverty and poor housing or social isolation, or because of difficulties in language barriers or different cultural norms

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Gottesman 1991

people are more likely to have schizophrenia if related to another sufferer, kids with two sz parents have a 46% concordance rate but kids wuth one sz parent have a 13% rate, and siblings have 9%

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Joseph 2004

mz twins have a rate of 40.4% and dz twins have a rate of 7.4%, but mz twins are treated more similarly

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Freud 1924

thought schizophrenia was the result of regression to a pre-ego stage and attempts to re-establish ego control.

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Brown and Birley 1968

50% of people suffer a stressful life experience in the three weeks before a schizophrenic outbreak

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Bateson et al 1956

suggests kids who frequently get contradictory messages from families are more likely to be sz

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Linszen et al 1997

expressed emotion (criticism and emotional over involvement) within families is more likely to cause relapse rates

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Comer 2003

the self fulfilling prophecy, once the label is placed it promotes the development of other symptoms

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Os et al 1994

no link between life events and the development of sz

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Davis 1980

found higher relapse rates in placebo groups than in groups of patients taking medication

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Hill 1986

30% of people taking antipsychotics get tardive dyskinesia and 75% of cases are irreversible

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Drury 1996

25-50% reduction in recovery time for patients on a combination of meds and therapy

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