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Factors Associated with Schizophrenia

schizophrenia and prevention of schizophrenia, 2004). This is one way in which environmental factors impact mental health. Biolo...

Family Dynamics and a Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In fifteen pages this paper examines schizophrenia in a consideration of the family dynamics after a member has been diagnosed wit...

Depression, Schizophrenia, and Neurotransmitters

In five pages this paper examines the role of neurotransmitter in such mental disorders as schizophrenia and depression. Six sour...

Functioning of Neurotransmitters, Depression, and Schizophrenia

In seven pages this paper examines the functioning of dopamine and serotonin neurotransmitters in schizophrenia and depression. N...

Schizophrenia

been great strides made in the treatment of the disease, enabling many patients to live full lives (Mueser and McGurk 2036). What ...

Mood Disorders and Schizophrenia

environment which fed the development of the disease, relapse is not uncommon ("Schizophrenia," 2006). Complete recovery is a poss...

Adult Psychoses

This essay discusses two adults, one diagnosed with anorexia, low self-esteem, and interpersonal relationship problems, the other ...

Assessing Ethics in Research

has been demonstrated to increase as the patients own baseline in terms of their general irritability and hostility increases, and...

How to Better Help Schizophrenic Patients

This paper points out the importance of using evidence-based practices with people who have schizophrenia. The paper includes sect...

One Possible Intervention for Schizophrenia

There have been a number of psychotherapeutic approaches used to treat schizophrenia and other serious mental disorders. The one d...

Schizophrenic Homeless Placement, A Proposed Project

This research paper presents a plan for a proposed project that will utilize a sample group of 30 homeless male participants who ...

Impact of Schizophrenia on Patients and their Families

The paper is a literature review on the topic of schizophrenia and the impact and influence that the condition has on patients and...

Cultural Influences on Attitudes to Schizophrenia

have on patient outcomes. It was found patients from the Mexican American families, where there was a lower level of EE were also ...

Role of Neurotransmitters

In six pages this paper examines disease and the role of acetylcholine, serotonin, and dopamine neurotransmitters and also conside...

Hispanic and Urban Black Populations and Schizophrenia

mental health evaluations, support systems and treatment programs (Urdaneta, Saldana and Winkler 70). The current literature re...

Frederic Flach's Rickie

In two pages this paper briefly considers how the author recounted his daughter's schizophrenia battle in Rickie. There are no ot...

Race and Schizophrenia Diagnosis

In ten pages this paper examines the incidences of mistaken African American schizophrenia diagnoses. Ten sources are cited in th...

Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment and Effect on Families of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder

patients experiencing either symptoms or full episodes of depression much more frequently than those of mania or hypomania" (Micha...

Schizophrenia and the Cultural Symptoms Developed by Marvin K. Opler

with certain cultural elements of personality such as homosexuality (latent and overt) to predict the possibility of schizophrenia...

Clozapine Compared To Effects of Other Pharmaceuticals

Willwerth, 1992). Anxiety and depression are common (Wallis and Willwerth, 1992). Approximately eighty percent of individuals tr...

Description of the Condition Known as Schizophrenia

the population suffers from schizophrenia. * About 75% of patients developed schizophrenia between the ages of 15-25" (Internet s...

Adult Alienation and Schizophrenia in The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing and Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

assumed. "Surfacing" The voice of the narrator in "Surfacing" characterizes the women in Atwoods later novels who are best define...

Paranoia and Schizophrenia

p. 5). Nevertheless, the fact that a diagnostic criteria is listed in the book, detailed and complex, tends to encourage the perce...

BILLY PILGRIM: PTSD OR SEVERELY PSYCHOTIC?

shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...

Schizophrenia in Adults

factors still were largely obscure. "One suggestion is that brain damage occurring at or around the time of birth in some way con...

Schizophrenia and Genetics

Study to Hunt for Genetic Causes, 2003). However, while there are medications to treat these conditions and reduce sympt...

A Critique on a Research Project Article

it represented a quantitative approach, which begins with an idea that is usually articulated as a hypothesis. From there, throug...

Neuroleptic Drugs and Schizophrenia

which to help both patient and family cope with associated stresses. Music therapy may prove only marginally effective depending ...

DSM IV Criteria for Schizophrenia

descriptions for various mental and psychological disorders and breaks them down into diagnostic classes. Utilizing the DSM IV al...

Defining and Treating Schizophrenia

prevention. Today, researchers are not disregarding the genetic component, but see this component as working in conjunction with o...