Schizophrenia question?

Question

Im doing an essay on the genetics involved with schizophrenia. And whether or not its a genetic disorder as well as a mental disorder. Okay well Im having trouble finding good sites on the genetics involved with schizophrenia, studys on genetics and schizophrenia, and things like that. So if you have any good sites please please help.
Also any sites on the Genetic Epidemiology of Schizophrenia: Phenotypes, Risk Factors, and Reproductive Behavior. Please help if you can.
But please do not awnser this question with I dont know or I dont have any. Please this is serious.

Answer 1

go to schizophrenia.com you will find all your info there.

Answer 2

To say you don't want "I don't know" begs the question of what schizophrenia is. In 100 years of research, there is still no determinative physiological artifact associated with schizophrenia; nothing whatsoever that is both a sensitive and specific criterion, other than the various behavioral descriptors in the DSM. The genetic research has all been well debunked in light of failures to discriminate shared environment, or simply getting the math wrong. If you want to know things for sure, then you will surely find physiology data to substantiate any position. But if you look at the research as a whole, you end up with a lot of top researches saying "we don't really know anything," as they did in a Science magazine article a few years ago.

Answer 3

The reason you have trouble finding info on the genetices of schizophrenia is that it is not clearly established genes are a cause. There is some indication that there is a genetic predisposition whatever that means.

Try typing "schizophrenia/genetics" into Yahoo! search. There will be several links come up most highly technical. Try this one for a summary: www.psychiatry-disorders.com/schizophrenia/causes.php It has a good summary of the genetics of schizophrenia.

Answer 4

Before concluding that it is a genetic illness because one or more sibillings in the same family have been labelled as affected by this illness, you have to prove that the sibilling have not be labelled in such a way only because it is unscentifically accepted that if a sibilling has a schizophrenic problem than the other sibilling must have the same problem.

The problem is typical of many pseudoscientific theories. It is very difficult to make distinction between what is real and what is created by the theory, that is belive as true even if it is not been proved as true.

For information about how strange is the definition of the schizophrenia see, for instance,

http://www.antipsychiatry.org/schizoph.htm

Answer 5

i have worked with schizophrenic people and families for 30 years. my experience is that it does run in families. i have seen families were up to 2 or 3 siblings. out of 5 have schizophrenia, and have past family history of this illness. the doctors i worked with felt that some times this illness will skip a generation. i know a family who, when they got married, one was bi polar. the other schizophrenic, had 2 children, and both turned out to be schizophrenic. medication seemed to keep the symptoms from reappearing. i personally believe that genetics is very important , for what is considered and organic illness. hope i have been of some help for your essay

Answer 6

These people: Fred Baughman (MD), Peter Breggin (MD), Mary Boyle (Ph.D), David Cohen (Ph.D), Ty Colbert (Ph.D), Pat Deegan (Ph.D), Albert Galves (Ph.D), Thomas Greening (Ph.D), David Jacobs (Ph.D), Jay Joseph (Ph.D), Jonathon Leo (Ph.D), Bruce Levine (Ph.D), Loren Mosher (MD), Stuart Shipko (MD) and others signed on to this as it progressed.

In 2003, asked the APA, NAMI, and the U.S. Surgeon General for information to answer the following questions and there was none other then textbook quotes, which is changed from day to day and as society changes its views on things:

1. Evidence That Clearly Establishes the validity of "schizophrenia" "depression" or other "major mental Illnesses" as biologically-based brain diseases.

2. Evidence For A Physical Diagnostic Exam such as a scan or test of the brain, blood, urine, genes, etc that can reliably distinguish individuals with these diagnoses (prior to treatment with psychiatric drugs), from individuals without these diagnoses.

3. Evidence For a Base-line Standard of a neurochemically balanced "normal" personality, against which a neurochemical "imbalance" can be measured and corrected by pharmaceutical means.

4. Evidence That Any Psychotropic Drug can correct a "chemical imbalance" attributed to a psychiatric diagnoses, and is any thing more than a non-specific alterer of physiology.

5. Evidence That Any Psychotropic Drug can reliably decrease the likelihood of violence or suicide.

6. Evidence That Psychotropic Drugs do not in fact increase the overall likelihood of violence and suicide.

7. Finally, that they reveal publicly evidence published in mainstream medical journals, but unreported in mainstream media, that links use of some psychiatric drugs to structural brain changes.

The fact is there is no reliable or valid medical evidence for Schizophrenia. You might also want to read:

Mad In America by Robert Whitaker
The Making of the DSM by Paula Caplan
Bedlam by Joe Sharkey
The History of Underground Education by John Gatto

This should clue you in on this, but thanks for asking this I will be real interested in seeing the answers that you come up with here. For my own further investigation.

The Science writer for www.schizophrenia.com has written for and been paid by the following:...Shoppers Drug Mart...GlaxoSmithKline so how much of his writing is influenced by these companies it seems like a conflict of interest to me.

Also there have been studies to show that those scan pictures can show the same exact thing on a person that has never been diagnosed as compared with one that has been diagnosed, and even variability at times between those that have been scanned one time compared with the next, and with repeated scannings showing different images, and differences in the pictures in people that have been diagnosed with this disease compared to one another, so how reliable and valid is that.

I also wonder why this website would be interested in having people write one sidedly about as they explain:...people who have schizophrenia, and to do in-depth reporting on the progress in the science and biology of schizophrenia. Ideally freelancers will have experience writing for consumer science, mental illness or psychiatry publications.

Answer 7

it is a genetic disorder as well as a mental disorder.

Answer 8

go to www.schizophrenia.com

Answer 9

www.mindfreedom.org

www.cchr.org