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“Biological explanations of schizophrenia tell us all we need to know about this disorder” Critically consider biological explanations of schizophrenia with reference to the issue raised in the quotation above.
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"Biological explanations of schizophrenia tell us all we need to know about this disorder" Critically consider biological explanations of schizophrenia with reference to the issue raised in the quotation above. The biological approach covers a verity of different explanations. The first explanation comes from twin studies, abortion studies and perspective studies. If schizophrenia was totally and always inherited then concordance rates between MZ twins (identical) and DZ twins (non identical) would be 100%. If on the other hand genetic inheritance had nothing to do with schizophrenia, the concordance rates would be close to 0%. In a study by Gottesman, it was found that there was a concordance rate of 48% for MZ twins as opposed to 17% for DZ twins. A study by Kendler supports this. In this study it was found that there was a concordance rate of 50% for MZ twins compared to a 15% rate doe DZ twins. In...
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