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Analyse one model of abnormality I am going to analyse the biological model. There are four main branches coming off the biological model. The first one is infection. This explanation says that an infection can cause mental illness. This can be explained by a study through which it was proven, that babies who's mother had the flu when they were pregnant, had a much greater risk of developing schizophrenia when they grew up. In other words, contracting illness or disease could mean that you have a greater chance of developing symptoms of abnormality. Meaning perhaps that illness or disease could affect the chemical make up of the brain and therefore could cause abnormality in some way. There is another example of a study in the nineteenth century. Syphilis was found to lead to brain deterioration which then led to psychotic behaviours such as delusions and other things. Then there is...

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