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SCHIZOPHRENIA
In a quiet, darkened hospital room a twenty five year old man with paranoid schizophrenia lies on a table. ... Schizophrenia can be traced back to a person’s genetics, and can have devastating effects (NIMH). ...
Scientific studies show that schizophrenia can be caused by genetic flaws. No
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one gene promotes schizophrenia on its own. ... Previous studies have found that a susceptibility to schizophrenia appeared to be hereditary. ... These results support the hypothesis that there is a genetic link to schizophrenia (NIMH). ... Identical twins have almost identical genes; if schizophrenia is strictly determined by a person’s genetic inheritance, both twins should have the identical disorder in the majority of cases. ... New studies support earlier evidence of a connection between schizophrenia and a gene somewhere in a short stretch of chromosome six. ...
There is also a controversy the idea of schizophrenia being hereditary. ... Other studies have shown that higher rates of schizophrenia occur in children whose birth was marked by complications, and those born to mothers who caught the flu during the fifth month of pregnancy. It has long been known that a tendency to develop schizophrenia runs in families. Another research topic on schizophrenia is a persons DNA. ... New reports show that one relatively small DNA segment, containing several hundred genes at most, includes a gene that has a susceptibility to schizophrenia (BMA). ... Schizophrenia is responsible for fifty billion of that. For all this money schizophrenia must strike an amazing amount of people.
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Schizophrenia affects an estimated one percent of the population, usually striking young adults.
Approximate Word count = 1303
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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