Schizophrenia and Psychology

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In this article, the writer discusses what is known of the origins of schizophrenia, as these pertain to several fields of psychology. The writer looks at important concepts that include schizophrenia as a familial and genetic disease that may or may not present in the family members of diagnosed cases. Further, the writer reflects on how the disease is treated in the present and looks at risks of the condition. A commentary on how psychologists can support the patient who lives in the community is also presented.

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"Studying possible causes of schizophrenia has led to a large literature in areas that involve brain chemistry, genetics, abnormal development, and the precise nature of cognitive deficits and emotion. Biological theories of schizophrenia gained from progress in neuro-psychiatry, the psychology of perception, and what can be dormant genetic features until a period of abrupt or prolonged stress to produce a first psychotic episode. The emergence of Neuroscience as a distinct discipline in the late 1950s and early 1960s has helped to track genetic factors that influence schizophrenia, in new knowledge to do with genetic dysfunction, molecules, neuronal organelles or differences in neural systems."

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