Question

Explain the factors that can contribute towards schizophrenia

Answer 1

Schizophrenia is a disease I am quite familiar because I have a brother who has it, plus I have taken advanced courses in abnormal psych. Schizophrenia has a strong genetic component but environmental factors have been said to exacerbate the disorder and dictate how the disorder will manifest, and to what extent the disease will be present. Research has been unable to distinguish between bipolar and schizophrenia as a specific gene, and it may be different manifestations of the same component gene. Likewise, it has been theorized that childhood trauma may contribute greatly to the development of schizophrenia but again, more toward the degree than the disease. Some environmental factors may indeed turn on the gene. Twin studies have shown to provide a high correlation of schizophrenia. Diet may have a component, hallucinatory drugs may trigger it, and odd ball things like a cord around the neck of a baby could be a random contributing factor. During adolescence, schizophrenia is said to have been related to the child's brain growing faster than his/her body. And schizophrenia attacks the neurotransmitter called dopamine.
Other theories exist. Freud had a theory that believes schizophrenics intentially reject reality. He believed they just couldn't accept being homosexual. Some religious fanatics think it is demon possession. Some philosophers have postulated that schizophrenia is a throw back to mans bicameral mind, prior to the origin of consciousness. Read the origin of consciousness and the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

Answer 2

There are lot of ----like
Genes and environment.
Different brain chemistry and structure. et