ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Question
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Diathesis
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Schizogene
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Candidate gene
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Environmental stressor
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thus the diathesis-stress model serves to explore how biological or genetic traits (diatheses) interact with environmental influences (stressors) to produce disorders such as depression, anxiety, or schizophrenia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Abstract. The neural diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia proposes that stress, through its effects on cortisol production, acts upon a preexisting vulnerability to trigger and/or worsen the symptoms of schizophrenia.
Detailed explanation-3: -diathesis (countable and uncountable, plural diatheses) (medicine) A hereditary or constitutional predisposition to a disease or other disorder.
Detailed explanation-4: -the theory that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness (diathesis) combined with stressful conditions that play a precipitating or facilitating role.
Detailed explanation-5: -The diathesis-stress model posits that psychological disorders result from an interaction between inherent vulnerability and environmental stressors. Such interactions between dispositional and environmental factors have been demonstrated in psychopathology research.