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2a) Outline two clinical characteristics of schizophrenia (5 marks)
b) Describe and evaluate two or more explanations of schizophrenia. (25 marks)
a) In Schizophrenia there are two symptom categories, the first is acute and the other chronic schizophrenia.
Acute schizophrenia is known as Type I and as a functional disorder. ...
Chronic schizophrenia is known as Type II and as an organic disorder. People suffering from this catatonic type of schizophrenia have more varied symptoms. ...
b) There are many explanations for the onset of schizophrenia one of these is the neurological ones.
Towards the end of the 1800s it was discovered that people diagnosed with schizophrenia had some sort of brain damage. ...
All evidence of structural brain abnormalities supports the view that Kraepelin had more than a century ago, that these brain abnormalities are the cause of schizophrenia.
However the normal age of onset is after adolescence, therefore if abnormalities in the brain come before the symptoms schizophrenia would be a developmental disorder
Weinberger (1998) criticises the fact that although there is a lot of research there is no conclusive evidence to prove if brain damage causes schizophrenia or if schizophrenia cause brain damage.
Approximate Word count = 803
Approximate Pages = 3.2
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