Abnormal Psychology

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 539 Suicide People with schizophrenia have a higher risk of dying by suicide than do ...

540 CHAPTER 12 Key Concepts and Facts About What are Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders? According to DSM-IV-TR, schiz ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 541 Neurological Factors in Schizophrenia Perhaps more than for any other psychologi ...

542 CHAPTER 12 A Frontal Lobe Defect? Many studies have set out to discover whether people with schizophrenia have im- paired fr ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 543 Biological marker A neurological, bodily, or behavioral characteristic that dist ...

544 CHAPTER 12 Dopamine hypothesis The view that schizophrenia arises from an overproduction of dopamine or an increase in the n ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 545 neurotransmitter serotonin), they report schizophrenia-like experiences (Syvalat ...

546 CHAPTER 12 the fi nding that women with schizophrenia who had higher levels of estrogen also had better cognitive functionin ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 547 to develop schizophrenia than were the children whose biological mothers had sch ...

548 CHAPTER 12 To develop a sense of the consequences of having such cognitive diffi culties, imagine the experience of a man wi ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 549 to prevent me from reaching my destination, and they’ve instructed the transit s ...

550 CHAPTER 12 behavior (a paranoid delusion) or else tries to minimize contact with others because their behavior seems inexpli ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 551 more attempts by their family members to try to minimize the psychotic, disorga- ...

552 CHAPTER 12 In Case 12.3, notice that, although the women had odd and prodromal behaviors in Haiti, her full-blown symptoms d ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 553 The collectivist characteristics of a culture may help a patient to recover for ...

554 CHAPTER 12 with a higher genetic risk—those whose mothers did have schizophrenia: Those raised in a stressful environment, w ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 555 an underlying vulnerability to schizophrenia (Walker & Diforio, 1997). The k ...

556 CHAPTER 12 Treating Schizophrenia The Genain sisters were treated at NIMH and then subsequently in hospitals, resi- dential ...

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders 557 dyskinesia are a by-product of schizophrenia itself, not a side effect of the me ...

558 CHAPTER 12 Either type of antipsychotic medication is considered “successful” when it sig- nifi cantly reduces symptoms and ...