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Even when there are biological factors that contribute to a problem, the environment usually plays a role as well. Biological approaches to defining abnormality may encourage people to overlook environmental factors that are easier to change than genetics or brain disorders. A study of adopted children showed that two distinct risk factors encouraged alcoholism: (1) familial alcoholism (one or both genetic parents were alcoholic) and (2) drinking in the family environment (the adoptive parents had drinking problems). Either heredity or environment could increase risk of alcoholism, and obviously only the environment can be manipulated or changed after a person is born, if one wants to prevent alcoholism from developing. Specific behavioral disorders 1. Divided Brain This disease is also called split-brain, and the problem the patient has is that the both brain parts cannot communicate with each other. The brain has two hemispheres, the right and the left hemisphere. Those two hemispheres do look like mirror images of each other, but a closer examination reveals certain asymmetries. When the two hemispheres are measured during an autopsy, the left one is almost always larger than the right one. This anatomical difference are related to differences in functions between the two hemispheres: the left hemisphere is specialized for the use of language, while the right one is specialized for mental imagery and the understanding of spatial relationships. Speech and the production of sounds are usually located in the left hemisphere. But some left-handed people have speech centers located in the right hemisphere or divided between the two. Seeing is also complicated, the two eyes of you give their information to the opposite hemisphere; your right eye gives his information to the left hemisphere, and your left eye to the right hemisphere. The brain transforms this information so we see 'normal'. As a result of this the left hemisphere sees the right hand in the right visual field, this is correct because your right hemisphere controls you left body-half and otherwise. When someone is suffering a split-brain his both hemispheres cannot communicate. In a test, a person with a split brain is seated in front of a screen. Because of his split brain he cannot use his right hand to take something he sees with his left eye. When a word appears on the left side of the screen, the eye passes 21
the information through to the right hemisphere so he won't understand the word because language depends on the left hemisphere. Because people with split brain can not combine the information of both hemispheres, their behavior is pretty strange. Because he is not aware of everything that happens he can look stupid and his behavior can be illogical and vague. 2. Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is the label given to a group of psychotic disorders characterized by distortion of reality, withdrawal from social interaction and disorganization of thought. The word schizophrenia is derived from the Greek words for to split (schidzein) and mind (phren). This splitting is related to fragmenting of the thought processes. Schizophrenia occurs in all cultures, also those that are remote from western civilization and its stress. Because the disorder often reoccurs and because the patient's suffer long from it, half of all psychiatric hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering schizophrenia. Schizophrenia usually appears in young adulthood. Sometimes the disorder develops slowly, but sometimes it has a sudden onset. These are often a result of stress with people living an isolated life. Whether the disorder develops slowly or suddenly, the signs are many and varied. The primary characteristics can be summarized as the following, although not every schizophrenic person will show all of them: 1. Disturbance of thought and attention; people suffering schizophrenia often cannot think logically and as the result of this they cannot write a story, because every word they write down might make sense, but are meaningless in relation to each other, and they cannot keep their attention to the writing. 2. Disturbances of perception; during acute schizophrenic episodes, people say that the world appears different to them, their bodies appear longer, colors seem more intense and they cannot recognize themselves in a mirror. 3. Disturbances of affect; schizophrenic persons fail to show 'normal' emotions. For example, a patient may smile while talking over tragic events 4. Withdrawal from reality; during schizophrenic episodes, the individual becomes absorbed in his inner thoughts and fantasies. The self- 22
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