PSY 351 Study Guide - Lentiform Nucleus, Tryptophan, Monoaminergic
1 Apr 2014
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Movement disorder (agitated body movement & repeated movement) Flat affect (a person"s face does not move or talks in a dull/monotonous voice) Disruption of normal emotion and behaviour (can be mistaken for depression) Have genetic component (if one twin have it, the other twin have 60% of getting it) Epidemic (mothers who have flu during the second trimester / influenza virus) Malnourished mothers / mothers in a famine state: there"s no sex difference in the overall incidence of schizophrenia. There are important sex difference in timing, prognosis, and symptoms. Men: 18 25 / women: 25 35 or over 40. Men are said to have a higher chance of getting it. Men: higher presence of negative & disorganised symptoms. Schizophrenia is caused by developmental abnormalities in the nervous system during the prenatal or neonatal period. It predict that schizophrenia is caused by too much dopamine.
