Genetics & Environmental Factors
The percentage range for the heritability of schizophrenia.
What is 70 to 80%?
Schizophrenia occurs more in this gender then the other gender.
What is males?
The amount of symptoms you must have to know if might have schizophrenia.
What is 2?
A serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel, and behave.
What is schizophrenia?
Mollie's favorite animal.
What is giraffe?
Name TWO environmental risk factors that can increase the risk of schizophrenia before or during early life.
What are exposure to viruses/toxins before birth, trauma in early childhood, or stressful life events? (Any two)
This age range that schizophrenia is most commonly found in women.
What is 25 to 35 years old?
The length you must have the major symptoms for.
What is a month or longer?
Many people with schizophrenia don't know this.
Mollie's birth month.
What is October?
Studies showed that children were more likely to develop schizophrenia if this biological parent had it, even if raised by non-schizophrenic parents.
Who is the biological mother?
The age range that schizophrenia is most commonly found in men.
What is 20 to 24 years old?
Name one of the main symptoms.
What is delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking? (must have ONE)
Name ONE treatment a person with schizophrenia could try.
What is medicine, talk therapy, and help with learning how to manage daily life? (Name at least ONE)
Brooke's Birth Month.
What is June?
Schizophrenia has been linked with a loss of this thing.
This race is diagnosed with schizophrrenia more then 2 times the rate of white Americans.
What is black Americans?
The length you must have persistent disturbance for if you have schizophrenia.
What is 6 months?
Hallucinations may result in this.
What is the person seeing things or hearing things that aren't actually there?
Makayla's Birth Month.
What is May?
Two neurotransmitters linked with schizophrenia.
What is dopamine and glutamate?
What is race?
For women, there is a slight peak in onset around ages 50 to 54, which aligns with this event.
What is menopause?
Delusions involve this.
What is firm beliefs in things that are not true?
Name Makayla's 3 sports. (must have all 3 to get points).
What is track, gymnastics, and dance?