Schizophrenia: Causes, Symptoms, and Recovery

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Title: Schizophrenia

Introduction
Steve, who is the subject in this report, is aged 23 and showed signs of paranoid
delusion and hallucination. According to differential diagnosis and since these signs and
symptoms have been manifest for over six months, he cannot be suffering from psychotic
episodes. He is also not faced with effect and speech disturbances, he is not disorganized and
does not show catatonic and negative symptoms. He therefore cannot be suffering from the
depressive type of schizoaffective personality disorder. According to the report from the
crisis resolution crew they did not record any incoherence of speech, motor function
disturbances or any abnormal change in moods from Steve.
Aetiology
The nursing and the resolution team came to a conclusion that Steve could be
suffering from Schizophrenia. But to be sure on this there was the need to look into Steve’s
family background, their history and past events as the health care professionals argued that it
was not clear what the cause of Schizophrenia could be. Among the diagnostic methods of
Schizophrenia is the ICD-10. According to this criteria, the characteristic features of Paranoid
schizophrenia include hallucinations and paranoid delusions. There is no published materials
explaining the cause of Schizophrenia in humans but there exists speculations that it could be
as a result neurotransmitter defects, genetic factors or caused by environmental factors. It is
linked with genetic factors with identical twins having a higher risk of about 40 to 65 percent.
The health care professionals did not find enough information to link Steve’s illness to his
family, though they claimed that he would be vulnerable if any of his family members
suffered from this condition. There are different theories explaining the cause of this
condition with some claiming that genetic factors alone do not cause schizophrenia but just
influences it. This theory also argues that schizophrenia does not only occur in genetically