Summarize the evidence concerning the genetic, biological, and environmental causes of schizophrenia. What is the current thinking about how and why schizophrenia develops?
What will be an ideal response?
* Genetic evidence suggests having a brother or sister with schizophrenia raises the risk to 9 percent, 46 percent for children of two schizophrenics, 5 percent for grandchildren, 48 percent for identical twins, and 17 percent for fraternal twins.
* Studies of adopted children suggest nature plays a more significant role than nurture.
* Compared to normal people, people diagnosed with schizophrenia have larger cerebral ventricles.
* Research suggests the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a role in producing schizophrenia.
* Schizophrenia is diagnosed more often in lower income individuals than higher income and more in urban than rural people.
* Nutrition and the amount of expressed emotion in a family also play a role. (See Table 12-9, p. 519.)
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A. not subject to forgetting. B. subject to forgetting due to trace-decay. C. subject to forgetting due to interference. D. subject to forgetting due to retroactive interference.