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Dangerous Mind - Psychology
Title: Dangerous Mind - Psychology
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 1759 | Pages: 7.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Dangerous Mind - Psychology
Dangerous Mind - Psychology
Since I’ve chosen to major in psychology, I’ve chosen to do my paper on something that pertains to my major. In this case the mental disorder schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severly disabilitating disease that has stricken the lives of almost two million people in the United States alone (Keefe 20). Since this disease is so devastating the majority of people that suffer from it either live on the streets or in …showed first 75 words of 1759 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1759 total…months. With these new antipsychotic drugs, though, the stay has been reduced to just days. In fact a person who takes the drugs has a 3-out-of-5 chance (60 percent) of not being rehospitalized (Keefe 164). These antipsychotics work by blocking certain receptors of certain types of neurotransmitters in the brain. For instance chlorpromazine is an atipsychotic that blocks the receptorsfor dopamine, which as I explained is believed to be the cause of most symptoms of schizophrenia (Anderson 97).
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