PSY 245 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Asociality, Psy, Alogia

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 245
• Professor: lauretano

Document Summary

Schizophrenia the lifetime morbid risk for developing schizophrenia is 1% People whose fathers were older (aged 45-50 years or more) at the time of their birth have two to three times the normal risk of developing schizophrenia. People of afro-caribbean origin living in the united kingdom seem to have a higher-than-expected rates of schizophrenia. Rates of schizophrenia also seem to be unexpectedly high in western ireland and. Croatia and especially low in papua new guinea the hutterites, a christian sect that migrated to canada and the united states from. Europe in the late 1800s also show a low prevalence of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia begins in late adolescence and early adulthood; cases in children are rare. After age 35 the number of men developing schizophrenia falls markedly, but the number of women developing schizophrenia does not instead, in women, there is a second rise in new cases that begins around age 40.