What Is Schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects the functioning of the brain. Someone who suffers from Schizophrenia will experience changes in the way that they feel‚ act and behave‚ and their thinking can distort their sense of reality. This is all caused by imbalances in the brain. The word ‘Schizophrenia’ actually means ‘split mind’ or ‘a splitting of the mind’. It comes from the Greek words skhízein (to split) and phren (mind)‚ but Schizophrenia does not mean that
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explanations for schizophrenia (8+16marks). It has been showed that schizophrenia has a tendency to run in different families. This implies that genes play a role. The closer the genetic relationship the more likely the people are to share the disorder. Gottesman (1991) showed that when both parents are schizophrenic‚ there is a 46% chance of the child also getting it‚ however‚ if only one parent had it‚ it dropped to 16% and dropped to a further 1% when the sibling of the child had schizophrenia. This suggests
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Describe and evaluate at least two biological treatments for schizophrenia Biological treatments arise from the medical model of abnormal behaviour‚ which considers mental disorder to be an illness of disease resulting from underlying biological factors. Most people with schizophrenia receive some form of drug therapy. Drug therapy is the most common treatment‚ using antipsychotic drugs. Antipsychotic drugs aims to help patient function as well as possible and increasing patient’s feelings of well
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ANNEXURE - I Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge is a premier research platform for information in the sciences‚ social sciences‚ arts‚ and humanities. Impact Factors are calculated yearly for journals indexed in Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Index. It is a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a particular year or period. RANK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ABBREVIATED JOURNAL NAME 4OR-Q J OPER
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IMPACT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ON MARKETING: A CASE STUDY OF AIRTEL COMPANY (Abstract) Information technology affects marketing in many ways. Some of these save labor and provide service. Others create entirely new products and new organizational forms. Still others enhance marketing operations in ways that can change their character. An example of the latter is now taking place behind the scenes in the consumer packaged goods industry‚ where a new generation of data is producing a discontinuity
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Microcontroller-Based Single-Phase Automatic Voltage Regulator Nang Kaythi Hlaing Lwin Lwin Oo Hardware Technology Department Computer University(PangLong) Myanmar nangkthi.23@gmail.com Hardware Technology Department Computer University(Larshio) Myanmar lwinlwinoo.72@gmail.com This design is based on the principle of phase control of ac voltage using a triac‚ where triggering (firing) delay is determined by the PIC microcontroller. Fig. 1 shows the important components of our
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The phenomenon causes Haze Hazy weather phenomenon is a thorn in the flesh to the government and the people. This phenomenon seems to tertaktub in the weather forecast for the calendar frequently hit the country. In reality‚ the haze situation in the country is very dangerous to people’s health. The main cause of the haze phenomenon sweeping the country is the emission of smoke from vehicles. This is so because of the increasing number of vehicles bak mushrooms after rain. Vehicles such as
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A stimulus is a disruption to the internal environment resulting from changes in the external environment‚ in the case of a tramper climbing Mt Taranaki‚ changes in the temperature of the external environment can cause their core body temperature to rise or fall. As the tramper climbs up Mt Taranaki and gets higher in altitude the external temperature will likely become much colder and the external conditions will be icy and windy‚ therefore‚ the trampers core body temperature will begin to decrease
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Fulfilling your growth potential As a leader‚ are you maximizing your growth potential will be determined by how comfortable or stretched do you feel in your current role? People act and work differently based on their culture‚ thinking‚ upbringing‚ personality‚ competency‚ and of course genes etc. At the same time education and practice continue to have an impact on intellect. Myth: IQ for an individual is fixed. Most experts now agree that it is not the case and genes require input from environment
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DSM Diagnosis: Include behaviors & symptoms consistent with diagnosis. Axis I: 295.90 Schizophrenia; Axis II: none; Axis III: deferred; Axis IV: primary and social Background information: John Smith is a Caucasian male in his mid-forties still living with his parents. The patient was admitted at the SBBH for having hallucinations‚ delusions‚ and suicidal thoughts. John Smith reported that his hallucinations and delusions kept progressing over the past few weeks. The patient has an ongoing struggle
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