PSYC 4080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Autopsy, Mild Cognitive Impairment, Preterm Birth
30 Nov 2017
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How much does having one parent with schizophrenia raise a person"s lifetime risk of getting the illness: from 0% to 48-50, from 1% to 10-12% answer, from 0% to 1, from 10-12% to 70-75% How might developmental neuropathology reveal itself: in cognitive deficits in attention, in social and behavioural problems, in motor abnormalities, in cytoarchitectural abnormalities, all of the above a. Which of the following is an accurate assessment of the genetics of schizophrenia: genes do not contribute to liability, genes completely account for liability, epigenetics account for liability, many genes contribute to liability answer. 3 requirements for a marker: objective correlate of an illness, high prevalence (how frequently it occurs in the target group) in diagnosis, low prevalence in healthy people (specificity) What is it about symptoms that make them unsuitable they are subjective states (they have to tell you about them)
