PSY BEH 11C Lecture 14: Lecture 14
16 Feb 2017
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A lot of people with sictophrenia have killed in massacres. The percentage of people with schizophrenia that are violent are 10% Public greatly exaggerates link between mental illness and violence. But subtle social signs may be seen in children (walkers home movie research) Typical person don"t have this - there when they shouldn"t be. They believe they are god or the devil. Disorganized speech or behavior e. g derailing, tangentialility, clanging. Brain structure differences e. g enlarged ventricles; smaller hippocampus. But , no defect is specific to schizophrenia or characterizes all patients. It could be once you get this illness or the meds. Virus (60% vs. 11% mz concordance, single vs. double placenta) Mean parents can be a cause a little. None are omnipresent in, or specific to, schizophrenia. Tirnari et al, 2004: gene-envt interaction in schizophrenia-specturn disorder. Participants (n= 303; about age 14 at follow- up)
