Schizophrenia is an abnormal psychology that is defined in three ways as a deviation from statistical norm, social norm and cultural relativism. There are problems that define the abnormalities in terms of system that relies on subjective judgment of an individual’s behavior. The mental disorders are classified using The Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder DSM-V to aid in the psychotic diagnosis of the disorder. The term schizophrenia is used to describe the general class of disorders that are characterized by similar symptoms such as disorganization thought processes, a split between intellect and emotion, and a split between intellect and external reality (Hansell & Damour, 2008). The disorder typically starts to manifest in early adulthood,
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Therefore, patients are faced with delusion, hallucination and impairment of language as well as memory problems. The approach argues that hallucination occurs as a result of mistake in individuals’ internal mental events for external observable events. The disorder is suggested also to occur as a result of flaws in selective attention and the symptom occurs because patients have poor concentration. Study shows that individuals with schizophrenia take long to encode stimuli and have short term memory problems. This implies that their ability to process information is impaired. There is a logical account that this approach provide regarding the many symptoms of schizophrenia. The cognitive therapy is the cognitive behavioral therapy which has been seen to improve the different types of problems associated with schizophrenia where patients did not respond to drug …show more content…
The positron emission tomography indicated the same result, and since dopamine is a neurotransmitter, it affects the processes of the brain that control movement, emotional response and ability to experience pain and pleasure. The evident contributing to this disorder indicates that antipsychotic medications reduce the disorder’ symptoms by blocking the dopamine receptors though they only work on symptoms like hallucinations. The symptoms of withdrawal among others are not affected by the medication; an indication that increased dopamine is not the primary cause of
Therefore, patients are faced with delusion, hallucination and impairment of language as well as memory problems. The approach argues that hallucination occurs as a result of mistake in individuals’ internal mental events for external observable events. The disorder is suggested also to occur as a result of flaws in selective attention and the symptom occurs because patients have poor concentration. Study shows that individuals with schizophrenia take long to encode stimuli and have short term memory problems. This implies that their ability to process information is impaired. There is a logical account that this approach provide regarding the many symptoms of schizophrenia. The cognitive therapy is the cognitive behavioral therapy which has been seen to improve the different types of problems associated with schizophrenia where patients did not respond to drug …show more content…
The positron emission tomography indicated the same result, and since dopamine is a neurotransmitter, it affects the processes of the brain that control movement, emotional response and ability to experience pain and pleasure. The evident contributing to this disorder indicates that antipsychotic medications reduce the disorder’ symptoms by blocking the dopamine receptors though they only work on symptoms like hallucinations. The symptoms of withdrawal among others are not affected by the medication; an indication that increased dopamine is not the primary cause of