PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Low Birth Weight, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Grey Matter

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

Types 1 schizophrenia: mostly positive symptoms, reactive schizophrenia. Stressful situation triggers the schizophrenia: prognosis is good, respond well to medication. Type ii schizophrenia: mostly negative symptoms, develops slowly and progressively, tends to be chronic, prognosis is poor, do not respond well to medication, more men suffer than women. 20 to 30% show mixed symptoms: understanding schizophrenia. There seems to be a genetic component to schizophrenia. The more closely related to one with schizophrenia, the higher risk of. If no relatives with schizophrenia, chances are very low (1/100) schizophrenia. Identical twins: if twins share placenta: 6 in 10 chance, different placenta: 1 in 10 chance, power and importance of environment. Adoption studies: adoptive child with bio parent with schizophrenia, adoptive child with adoptive parent with schizophrenia. Grm3 gene is linked to schizophrenia (portion of this gene: snp4) Father"s age is a strong and powerful predictor of schizophrenia. The higher the father"s age the higher the risk of schizophrenia.