Sunday, October 18, 2009

Relation to Psychology (Schrizophrenia)

This topic (Schizophrenia) because it has the greatest impact to each and everyone for us to know.
Psychology, in terms of its definition is that each of its terms has a broader meaning and it is much related to Schizophrenia wherein both observable actions and mental thinking is affected by this disorder.
Schizophrenia affects about 0.2-2% of the adult population or about 4.5 million people (equal numbers of men and women) in the United States(American Psychiatric Association, 2000) of the inpatients in mental hospitals, about 30% are there because of schizophrenia and this percentage is the highest of any mental disorder (Robins and Regeir, 1991). In this explanation, schizophrenia is truly existing and part of psychology. Psychiatrist was pointing out 3 major factors- biological, neurological and environmental that interacts in the development of schizophrenia. Biological and neurological factors explained why people develop schizophrenia.
Psychology is very broad in terms of its topic or studies and you can relate anything.

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