Psychopathology of Schizophrenia Psychosocial

(Client Based) Stressor and

interpersonal events

Years of alcohol
abuse
Modifiable Factors: Non-Modifiable:

 Lifestyle  Age
 Alcoholism Failure in o 40 y/o
development or a  Gender
subsequent loss of o Female
brain tissue

Diminished glucose
meta, and oxygen in Enlarged
frontal cortical ventricles
structures of the and cortical
Decrease brain atrophy
volume and
abnormal brain
function in frontal
and temporal lobe

Transmission of signal Malfunctioning of

requires a complex series transmission of
of biochemical events electrical impulses

Sytemic persecuters Delusion of anger

of delusion

Violence

Paranoid
schizophrenia