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Jacobie Geer
Ms. Cole
English 4
Essential Question: What age groups are targeted by schizophrenia and what are the negative
Refined Thesis: People may deal with different symptoms than others.
Piotrowski, Nancy A., Ph.D. Tischauser, Leslie V., Ph.D. “Schizophrenia.” Magill’s Medical
This article goes into the basics about what schizophrenia is and why is it there. It tells
the history of the said illness and where and how schizophrenia got its name. It states the
possible cause of this illness and what are the effects that go along with it. Deeper inside the
article, it states the types of treatment that could temporarily stop the delusions and illusions.
Using this article could help me figure out how schizophrenia got its name and how does it work
on the human mind. The reason why this article was picked because it has information about the
background of the illness and what it can do to any person who has it.
“Schizophrenia.” Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia. 2018. World Book, Inc.
Chicago.
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This article mainly tells the reader about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of
schizophrenia. It goes into detail what people of having said illness goes through when they’re
going through an episode, whether it’s positive or negative. It’s stated that people with
schizophrenia either have infections, birth defects, or trauma during any point on someone’s life.
In the article, it states that schizophrenic people are usually treated with antipsychotic drugs and
also therapy. This article will tell me the possible ways how schizophrenia can be developed and
the different treatments for the symptoms to cure them for the time being, but not permanently.
Kim JS. Park CM. “The association between season of birth, age at onset, and
Psychiatr Scand] 2017 Nov; Vol. 136 (5), pp. 445-454. Date of Electronic
This article talks about the onset of ages start to gets schizophrenia. The illness
usually develops around the ages of sixteen through thirty. People who are usually above
that age don’t get to have that illness. There are still studies going on about the subject of
and finding the opportunities to find out more. This article was used because of the ages
of people who develop schizophrenia may experience different things than others.
LONGDEN, ELEANOR. “Listening to Voices.” Scientific American Mind, vol. 24, Sept.
2013 p.34
A woman named Eleanor Longden discovered she had schizophrenia when she was
in college. She first heard random voices who began telling her the things that she’s doing
on a daily basis; opening and closing doors, eating, etc. Those voices also tell her to do
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bad things as well. Longden went through years with these voices inside her head. She
had told her friends that she had them and they did not want to associate with her because
it was too taboo. She then decided to go to a therapist. She tells him all about her
experience about the voices and she got the help that she needed to ignore those voices
and move on with her life. This article will help because it gives me information about
what a person with schizophrenia goes through and what they did to live through with
This article tells how scientists are expanding their research on schizophrenia.
Through previous years they have failed in trying to find a way that schizophrenia comes
and goes as it pleases. Trying to figure out why people get schizophrenia and getting them
somewhat cured has taken a sixty billion dollar toll. Scientists soon figured out that it’s
mostly genetic genes that are causing the mental disease, not really anything else. Decades
of families and the research they allowed them to do has led to that conclusion. This article
was chosen because it tells how much time scientists have spent to find the real reason
LUHRMANN, TANYA MARIE. “Beyond the Brain.” Wilson Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3,
This article is talking about another woman named Susan who’s experiencing
schizophrenia. She genetically got it from her mother, which she didn’t know until later.
Schizophrenia had lead to her bad behaviors in the streets. She had never really taken any
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type of medication for her symptoms except for staying in her apartment for long periods
of time. That seemed too good enough for her. Two decades later, better science came to
be and medications became for effective. Doctors gave Susan psychoanalysis to help her
with her schizophrenia. With that kind of treatment, she was able to feel better. With this
article, I believe it’ll help me, once again, understand what goes through a schizophrenic's
mind.