PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Safe House, Phenothiazine, Supported Employment
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Reduction bilateral medial temporal lobe regions (amygdala & hippocampus) which decrease in blood volume can cause neuronal loss and cognitive impairments. Hallucinations linked with reduced auditory cortical activation on auditory and memory tasks. White matter impaired leading to cognitive impairments. Relapse is increased by life stress and decreased by stress-management programs. 2 stresses for schizophrenia include social class and family. Schizophrenia rates are higher in lower social class and usually in urban populations. Social-selection theory: due to schizophrenia people may drift into poverty: there is more evidence for this theory. Migrants and 2nd- generation immigrants have high risk, indicating that environment does have an effect. Social defeat/ exclusion leads to alternations in cns dopamine sensitivity and regulation of dopaminergic systems. Schizophrenogenic mother: parent who was cold and dominant and produced schizophrenia in her offspring a study of adolescents with behaviour problems, a family communication pattern characterized by hostility and poor communication predicted onset of schizophrenia.
