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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 ...
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 ...
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.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17] [7] characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved.
In psychology, schizotypy is a theoretical concept that posits a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to extreme states of mind related to psychosis, especially schizophrenia. The continuum of personality proposed in schizotypy is in contrast to a categorical view of ...
Schizophrenia is now treated by medications known as antipsychotics (or neuroleptics) that typically reduce dopaminergic activity because too much activity has been most strongly linked to positive symptoms, specifically persecutory delusions. Dopaminergic drugs induce the characteristic auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia if they are ...
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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.