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John Biggs
2/29/04
Schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.
There is no way to imagine the amount of confusion that someone who is living with a major personality disorder must experience on a daily basis. ... Should someone who has developed Schizophrenia and someone who is sane be held equally accountable for their crimes?
About one in every one hundred people will experience symptoms of schizophrenia at some point in their life. Of the one percent of the population that will have a schizophrenic episode, half will have reoccurring episodes of schizophrenia. ...
Schizophrenia can be described as a psychological disorder that causes a person’s thoughts, perceptions, and beliefs to become skewed and distorted. The effects of schizophrenia can be placed in two categories; positive symptoms, and negative symptoms. The positive symptoms of Schizophrenia occur when brain functions become excessive or distorted. ... It is also common for concentration to become severely difficult, deciphering useless information from useful information becomes trying; a person affected by schizophrenia may also have trouble remembering things. ...
Greatly contrasting the positive symptoms of schizophrenia the negative symptoms tend to show a recession in motivation, emotion and behavior. A very common negative effect of schizophrenia is flat affect which is also known as affective flattening. ... Alogia is another way that negative symptoms of schizophrenia present themselves through speech; alogia is also known as poverty of speech and is present when someone’s speech is greatly reduced to brief and empty comments. ...
There are five theories that explain the possible causes of schizophrenia; it is thought that schizophrenia could be caused by a virus, by paternal age, there is evidence to show that schizophrenia is caused by genetics, or possibly by a loss of brain structures, it is even suggested that unhealthy families could enable the mental breakdown to occur. A very new and cutting edge theory is that is beginning to show promise is that schizophrenic’s were exposed to a viral infection before or shortly after birth; because viruses are capable of traveling with relative ease along the nervous system, also children who were born during February and March had a higher likelihood of schizophrenia, so do children who were born in cities.
Approximate Word count = 1657
Approximate Pages = 6.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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