Schizophrenia Article Reviews Samples For Students

Introduction

There have recently been increased incidences of mothers harming their newborn babies intentionally. This might appear to be very bizarre given that a mother is naturally expected to show extreme care and sensitivity to her newborn baby. The article “Good mothers, bad thoughts: New mother’s thoughts of intentionally harming their newborns” by Louise Murray and Mark Finn explores this issue from a psychological perspective.

Literature Review

Murray and Finn commence their exploration by a comprehensive literature review where several facts are brought into light. The occurrence of thoughts of harming a newborn child by a mother is mainly associated with depression on the mother’s ...

Post-Partum Psychosis

Doctors see some kind of mental disturbance in up to 80% of mothers in the post-partum period, or the few days or weeks after childbirth. Depression is the most common problem, but for about one in 1,000 women the issue is post-partum psychosis. Psychosis is defined as a mental illness characterized by a loss of contact with reality and requires immediate medical attention. Valdimarsdottir et al. decided to determine what characteristics increased the chance of post-partum psychosis by searching through a very large number of first time mothers in Sweden and identifying and studying those women diagnosed this mental illness within ...

Schizophrenia can be described as a neurodevelopment disorder. Genetics and surroundings play an important role in development of this disorder. Patients suffering from the decease faced problems in performing the tasks involved memory and mental exercise.
1. Various findings revels that schizophrenia is a disconnection problem. Some findings are as follow;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) - a study carried out on structural MRI shown uneven distribution of grey material in different regions of brain. The grey material found around 5 to 10 percent less in frontotemporal and basal ganglia-thalamocortical network. A decrease in volume in hippocampus considered as consistent and ...

Abnormal Psychology

The article reveals about the ethical issues that involved in schizophrenia research. The author notes on the new scientific developments especially those that have developed in the past decade. According to the article abnormal psychology is a subgroup of psychology, which deals with the studies involving abnormal people in a comparison to the rest of the members of an individual society (Wilson & Stanley, 2016). The article reveals that that according to empirical research, 27 percent of people in a population at any one particular time may be suffering from a disorder or depression at any given time (Wilson & Stanley, ...

Abstract

This article review evaluates the manner in which the article under review followed all the writing style and the format as per the APA manual and the lecture notes. It also evaluates how the information of the article was presented in the abstract section and its appropriateness. The article reviews whether the authors support their claims in the introduction, with appropriate and enough works cited. The description of how the findings of this study were discussed is also included. The study is about the application of an empirical method in describing the course in schizophrenia, and the differentiation of ...

Psychology

Exposure Therapy for Fear of Spiders in an Adult with Learning Disabilities: A Case Report
Introduction
Past research has shown that people with learning disabilities are prone to a higher extent of being susceptible to phobias of various types. Exposure therapy is a type of treatment for phobias, where subjects are repeatedly exposed to the thing they are afraid of till the latent fear subsides, primarily as a result of the subjects associating non-threatening cues with the objects creating phobias. Past research has depended upon behavioral indices to determine success, overlooking the fact that people with learning disabilities could ...

Psychology

Anxiety disorders are occurrences in our human life today. They can affect everyone in the society, and its effects are extensive in the society as well. There are several factors that play a significant role in the existent and development of anxiety disorders among human beings (WITTCHEN, STEIN, & KESSLER, 2009, p. 13). One of the elemental factors that relate to anxiety disorders is biological preparedness. The anxiety disorder presented includes fears and phobias towards different aspects in the environment.
Graham explains the uneven distribution of the fears through various evolutionary and mechanistic explanations. Psychological or behavioral mechanisms explain the ...

Where do Phobias come from?

Study conducted on mice showed that phobias are genetically transmitted from one generation to the next through chemical changes that occur in DNA or through experiences from ancestors. The study was conducted on mice, which were trained to fear cherry blossoms odour by use of electric shocks prior to breeding. The offsprings developed a fear of the cherry blossom odour in spite of never experiencing them proving that the experience can be transferred genetically to the offsprings.

Christmas: a Social Anxiety Minefield

Christmas can cause anxiety in people through worry about finances, potential drunkenness, and involvement in social events. The symptoms of this anxiety include ...

Bilateral relations between countries, especially neighboring ones are essential to economic growth and peaceful co-existence and are mostly mutually beneficial especially in the areas of commerce and tourism. Seeing as China and Malaysia are both Asian countries they both stand to benefit from good neighborly relations.
Relations between China and Malaysia formally began in 1974 this was in a bid to increase trade ties between both countries that were mutually beneficial. This article seeks to examine the changing faces of Malaysia’s policy towards China from the cold war era, through the post cold war and up to 2004 ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...