PSYC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Glutamate Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia, Twin, Dopamine Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia name means split brain for that reason, many people thought split in personality but really split in emotions and thoughts. 1% of population, no matter where you are, iceland or kalahari. Emerges around late teens or early 20s the disease manifests around this age. At a ect powerful, have special mission e. g. fbi is after them, because they know something so fbi wants to take them down other schizophrenics can have the opposite show little or no emotion. *very poor reaction to emotional events over-express emotions. *if both parents schizophrenics, 50% chance if one twin is schizophrenic, 48% chance the other one is schizophrenic if one is schizophrenic, 17% other is schizophrenic. 13% if it was purely genetic, then child of two schizophrenics should have 100% of getting it /// however, correlation too high for genetics not to matter.
