What is the reported likelihood of passing schizophrenia down to an offspring?
What is the reported likelihood of passing schizophrenia down to an offspring?
Following response , please provide reference , due 11/10 150words each part
Part1
You noted, “Is there a possibility that a person might exude the symptom, but suffer from a different mental condition other than Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and Mood Disorders?
” What symptom are you referring to?
Depending on the research, schizophrenia has been linked to genetics, environment, brain chemistry, brain structure, and/or brain development. What is the reported likelihood of passing schizophrenia down to an offspring?
Part2
The diagnostic criteria for schizoaffective disorder is a little bit different. The person must experience sessions of uninterrupted illness and also experience an episode of mania, major depression or a combination of both (Maddux & Winstead, 2012). During these episodes, the individual must also show signs of schizophrenia.
The diagnostic criteria for a mood disorder with psychotic feature is different from both of those previously mentioned. An individual must experience a depressive episode that lasts 2 weeks of longer. The individual must also experience 5 or more symptoms (agitation, depressed mood, loss of appetite or gain of appetite, difficulty concentrating, feelings of guilt, sleeping too little or too much, lack of interest in activities, low energy levels and thoughts of suicide) (Maddux & Winstead, 2012).
Which of these disorders do you think would be the hardest to diagnose in a patient and why?
Part3
The last disorder is mood disorder with psychotic features and the text describes that as a mood disorder such as major depression with psychotic episodes. These I believe are a part of schizoaffective disorder that was mentioned above and I think that the psychotic features are just a result of the schizophrenia involved with that mood disorder. What does everyone else think? Are schizoaffective disorder and mood disorder with psychotic features related perhaps even the same? Also what about schizophrenia would be the most debilitating or the hardest to handle for you?
Part4
This weeks topic is the exact reason I postponed taking abnormal psychology. The suck it up and drive on mentality that has been drilled, commended, and culturally required like a nine inch nail to the extent that their is a social stigma in some aspects of the Armed Forces that shows a strong belief that like the enemy a person who tries to aide a recovery that is necessary for their healthy return to society is created. Schizophrenia is a diagnosed condition that individuals who experience major positive symptoms such as hallucinations, racing thoughts, or delsuions coupled with withdraw, paranoia, verbal and social impairment or the negative symptoms under what a socially dominant group would consider undesirable personality characteristics. It can be trained and rehearsed through degradation, assimilation, and rebirth into a culture designed around fear, and a nationalistic views. It is reinforced when an individual or team is faced with the primal or lower brain function necessitating the split second decisions making process that will insure their survival or imminently lead to a his demise. Interestingly enough in more than 50% of twin studies or genetically similar patients will not develop schizophrenia showing that the gene expression of the condition is not always inhereted (Maddux, J.E & Winstead 2012). When Eugen Bleluer first coined the term derived of two Latin terms schiz which means split, and phren known as “the mind” at the Zurich hospital in the early 20th century he changed the face of Psychopathology. His work was originally fundamental and accessories he described the six a’s in his description. The areas were autistic ambivalence, abulia, disturbance of effect and disturbance of association, and lastly dementia. (Maddux, 249) His work will undoubtedly be the topic of many conversations for years to come. What role do you believe epigenetics have on the biophysiological presentation of the condition?
” What symptom are you referring to?
Depending on the research, schizophrenia has been linked to genetics, environment, brain chemistry, brain structure, and/or brain development. What is the reported likelihood of passing schizophrenia down to an offspring?
