Schizophrenia Adoption Study

Schizophrenia affects thought and emotion and the person being affected loses contact with reality. It is often confused with DID, which is multiple personalities. Schizophrenia is better described as one personality that is broken up. It affects people’s levels of functioning and over half of the people affected have serious disabilities. However, today many people with schizophrenia are able to function in the world and may need to only go to the hospital periodically for treatment. Most researches consider schizophrenia as a brain disorder because of the evidence dealing with brain abnormalities, neurotransmitter differences, and genetic influences that could start in the womb. Researchers have found brain abnormalities that could point to schizophrenia being a brain disorder. Structural differences have been found between schizophrenic and normal brains by
There is evidence that suggests that is lies partly in individual's’ genetic endowment. The chances of someone having schizophrenia increases if a parent has been diagnosed with it. If a sibling has it there is a 1 in 10 chance that another sibling will also develop it. Adoption studies have been done to show that it is genetically based. Children who were the offspring of a person with schizophrenia, but were adopted by people who did not have the disorder, still had a greater risk of developing it.
In conclusion, schizophrenia is a mysterious thing that researchers are still trying to understand. There has not been an exact cause for this disorder that has been proven. The evidence surrounding it shows that it can be due to a number of things. Brain abnormalities, neurotransmitter differences, and genetic influences have all been shown to have connections as to why this disorder develops. Unfortunately, there is no cure for schizophrenia, but there are treatments that allow some people to function in