Now by the click of a few keys or buttons, a load of valuable information can easily be found because of the invention of the internet. Modern psychology research has helped in the diluting of the myths that surround psychological disorders. In my personal experience and from my observations of this society one of the most misunderstood mental disorders that get a negative stigma has to be schizophrenia. As said in the paragraph preceding this one; many people believed that mental disorders were simply caused by a parent or parent’s poor life choices that ended up reflecting on the child negatively, the child’s life choices that resulted in the disease, and/or the child’s poor upbringing. But, through our latest technology and research, we now know that this misconception is not one that holds any truth. Researchers have found, to date, that “biological factors account for the strongest evidence in the development of schizophrenia” and that it is likely that “environmental conditions interact with biological factors to make a person either more or less susceptible to the illness” (Pastorino & Doyle-Portillo, 2015, p. 578). Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the cause of schizophrenia and other disorders have to do with biological factors such as genetics, brain abnormalities, and the malfunctioning of specific neurotransmitters in the brain (Pastorino
Now by the click of a few keys or buttons, a load of valuable information can easily be found because of the invention of the internet. Modern psychology research has helped in the diluting of the myths that surround psychological disorders. In my personal experience and from my observations of this society one of the most misunderstood mental disorders that get a negative stigma has to be schizophrenia. As said in the paragraph preceding this one; many people believed that mental disorders were simply caused by a parent or parent’s poor life choices that ended up reflecting on the child negatively, the child’s life choices that resulted in the disease, and/or the child’s poor upbringing. But, through our latest technology and research, we now know that this misconception is not one that holds any truth. Researchers have found, to date, that “biological factors account for the strongest evidence in the development of schizophrenia” and that it is likely that “environmental conditions interact with biological factors to make a person either more or less susceptible to the illness” (Pastorino & Doyle-Portillo, 2015, p. 578). Therefore, it is reasonable to say that the cause of schizophrenia and other disorders have to do with biological factors such as genetics, brain abnormalities, and the malfunctioning of specific neurotransmitters in the brain (Pastorino