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Drug use, a family member with schizophrenia or a related disorder, adolescence (in men) and being in your mid-twenties (in women), and your father being old when you were born are risk factors for schizophrenia.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 11y agoRisk factors for schizophrenia include being born from winter to spring, having neurodevelopmental abnormalities, having an old father, having a low income, and viral infection during pregnancy.
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∙ 11y ago- Viral infection during the second trimester of pregnancy/being born in winter or spring
- Abnormal neurological development during childhood
- Having a family member with schizophrenia and having genes for schizophrenia
- Having abnormalities in the levels of dopamine, GABA, and glutamate in the brain
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∙ 11y agoSchizophrenia involves structural damage to the brain. It also involves abnormalities in the levels of neurotransmitters in the brain. There are also genetic factors.
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∙ 11y agoPredisposition may make you more likely to develop schizophrenia, and may make your course of schizophrenia different from someone else's.
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What is schizophrenia and how does it relate to the biological approach?
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder or group of disorders that affects the normal functioning of the brain and severely impairs thinking, emotion, and behavior. Doctors do not know the specific cause of schizophrenia, but both environmental and genetic factors do play a role. The symptoms of schizophrenia are delusions, hallucinations, flat affect, and disorganized speech, thinking, and behavior. Schizophrenia relates to the biological approach to psychological disorders in that it is a primarily biological disorder. Schizophrenia is sometimes caused by an excess of the neurotransmitter dopamine, and there are brain defects associated with schizophrenia. Because of this, schizophrenia can be said to be a biological psychological illness.
Can psychosocial factors cause schizophrenia?
Psychosocial factors are now thought to influence the expression or severity of schizophrenia, rather than cause it directly.
How is schizophrenia different from other types of psychological disorder?
They suffer from frequent hallucinations and delusions.
How do you spell skitssofrenen?
The psychological condition is schizophrenia (sometimes called split personality) and the individual is a schizophrenic.
What is the difference in the expression of schizophrenia in identical twins attributed to?
The difference is attributed to environmental factors that impact the expression of schizophrenia.
Which psychological disorder is most likely to result in self mutilation?
There are many: PTSD, depression, bipolar, schizophrenia....
Is schizophrenia a chemical imbalance?
Schizophrenia is related to a chemical imbalance in the brain, but it has more factors than just the chemical imbalance.
Do you have a psychological disorder if you refuse to work to support yourself but live in poverty?
Quite possibly. Depression and schizophrenia are possibilities.
Can schizophrenia be spread?
Schizophrenia or any mental health issue is not spread or contagious.
What psychological diseases are a result of psychosocial malfunctions?
Psychological diseases that can result from psychosocial malfunctions include stress, neurosis, hypochondria, schizophrenia, paranoia, depression, mania, delirium, dementia, or narcissism.
How does the legislation define serious psychological harm?
serious psychological harm is harm that interferes with the victim's mentality it must be on the World Health Organisations register of mental illness such as schizophrenia, depression and PTSD
Is there a psychological symptom called paranoia vera?
Paranoia Vera is not a symptom, but a syndrome. The term is out of fashion, but those who studied it said that it was distinct from paranoid schizophrenia, in that it consisted of paranoid delusions without any other signs of schizophrenia.
