Schizophrenia References

Question 1

Symptoms return after medication is stopped

Answer 1

Rzewuska (2002)

Question 2

Meta analysis of family therapy

Answer 2

Shows adapting communication styles and reducing expressed emotion can prevent relapse and reduce hospital admission
Pharaoh et al. (2003)

Question 3

CBT effective?

Answer 3

Effective on both negative and positive symptoms

Turkington et al (2000)

Question 4

Evidence of attention problems in schizophrenia

Answer 4

Schizophrenia people perform poorly on stroop test

Barch et al 1999

Question 5

theory of mind deficits

Cognitive issues with context of others actions etc

Answer 5

Firth 1992

Question 6

Genetic evidence

Answer 6

Concordance studies show DZ twins 17%
My twins 48%
Gottesman 1991

Question 7

Is schizophrenia a disorder?

Answer 7

May be normal variant of human behaviour, no clear difference in brain found (szazs, 1961)

Question 8

Adoption studies

Answer 8

Twin adoption studies show genetic link

Kety et al. (1994).