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Irving Isadore Gottesman (December 29, 1930 – June 29, 2016) was an American professor of psychology who devoted most of his career to the study of the genetics of schizophrenia. He wrote 17 books and more than 290 other publications, mostly on schizophrenia and behavioral genetics , and created the first academic program on behavioral ...
Schizophrenia patients have a smaller volume of the hippocampus compared with a typical brain [18] [29] [25] Moreover, stressors also cause patient more sensitive to stress in everyday life, [23] [25] this is a vicious cycle. Therefore, the stressors are not just a trigger of schizophrenia but also lead to deterioration.
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Carol Arlene Prescott is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern California (USC), where she also holds a joint appointment in the Davis School of Gerontology. Before joining the faculty of USC in 2005, she was an assistant, and later associate, professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Virginia Commonwealth ...
James Shields (21 November 1918 – 20 June 1978) was a Scottish psychiatric geneticist and twin researcher. [1] In the 1960s, he worked with Irving Gottesman on a twin study of schizophrenia at the Medical Research Council Psychiatric Genetics Unit at Maudsley Hospital in London, England.
The causes of schizophrenia that underlie the development of schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder, are complex and not clearly understood.A number of hypotheses including the dopamine hypothesis, and the glutamate hypothesis have been put forward in an attempt to explain the link between altered brain function and the symptoms and development of schizophrenia.
1. Dr. F. Curtis Dohan, Medical Researcher, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 14, 1991. 2. Psychology Today, Wheat and Schizophrenia. Could bread and pasta be behind the pathogenesis of schizophrenia? Published on March 28, 2011 by Emily Deans, M.D. in Evolutionary Psychiatry 3. Chipping Away at Schizophrenia.
A strong candidate for schizophrenia endophenotype is prepulse inhibition, the ability to inhibit the reaction to startling stimuli. [18] However, several other task-related candidate endophenotypes have been proposed for schizophrenia, [ 19 ] and even resting measures extracted from EEG , such as, power of frequency bands [ 20 ] and EEG ...