Describe, evaluate and comment upon the many explanations of schizophrenia.

... Debbie Spicer 4th November Describe, evaluate and comment upon the many explanations of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a very serious condition the symptoms typically include problems with attention, thinking social relationships, motivation and emotion. People that suffer from schizophrenia generally have confused thoughts and often suffer from delusions, in which they attach great personal significance to external things. Schizophrenics usually suffer from hallucinations which mostly involve hearing voices. There are two main approaches to the causes of schizophrenia, the biological explanation and the psychological explanation. The biological approach suggests that people get schizophrenia because of a specific gene. This gene can either be inherited or can mutate. To prove this twins are studied on as identical twins will have exactly the same genes as each other. Gottesman (1991) summarised about forty studies of twins. He concluded that the concordance rate of a monozygotic (MZ) twin (identical twin) getting schizophrenia is 48% if the other twin

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