Schizophrenia and genetics : a twin study vantage point / [by] Irving I. Gottesman and James Shields ; with a contribution by Paul E. Meehl.

  • Gottesman, Irving I.
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1972
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Credit: Schizophrenia and genetics : a twin study vantage point / [by] Irving I. Gottesman and James Shields ; with a contribution by Paul E. Meehl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH AND THEORY By William E. Broen, Jr. A Volume in the PERSONALITY AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY Series 1969, 240 pp., $11.00 The marked increase in experimental studies of schizophrenia over the past two decades has led to a number of intriguing and vital research questions. This detailed, timely work presents a comprehensive review and an in-depth analysis that facilitates understanding of the research and theory on this most common form of abnormal behavior. Emphasizing behavior that is of great significance in schizoprhenic abnormality, the book's major focus is on the broad, interrelated areas of response interference, attention and cue utilization, and physiological arousal and inhibition. CONTENTS: Interfering Responses A Tentative Formulation. Schizophrenic Deficit as a Function of Stimulus Complexity. Response Interference Studies. Response Interference and Enriched Stimulus Conditions. Deviant-but- Associated Responses. Overinclusion and Overexclusion. Stimulus Generalization. Aversive Conditions. Summary and Concluding Remarks. Theories of Response Disorganization in Schizophrenia: Reduced Information Weakening of Associative Threads—Bleuler. Overinfluence of Dominant Meaning—Chapman and Chapman. Theories of Response Disorganization in Schizophrenia: Greater Interference from Concurrent Response Tendencies Response Disorganization Because of Loss of Social Motivation and/or Abilities—Cameron. Inability to Exclude the Irrelevant. Focus on the Irrelevant Motivated by Infantile Needs—Shakow. Partial Collapse of Response Hierarchies—Broen and Storms. Anxiety as a Drive That Raises Competing Responses over Threshold—Mednick. Neurophysiological Speculations about Response Interference in Schizophrenia Interfering Parallel Processes That Are Energized by the Reticular Activating System—Fish. Greater Equivalence of Synaptic Transmission Probabilities—Meehl. Some Possible Causes of Changed Synaptic Transmission Probabilities—Stilson and Kopell. The Interaction of Arousal, ACH, and Collapse of Response Hierarchies—Carlton. Overinclusion and Heterogeneity in Schizophrenia Overinclusive Thinking as a Result of an Inhibitory Defect—Payne. The Generality of Overinclusion. Accounting for the Separation of the Two Kinds of Overinclusion. Differences in Breadth of Cue Utilization A Distinction between Scanning and the Organization of Response Tendencies That Are Evoked by the Multiple Stimuli That Have Been Scanned. Attention in Acute Schizophrenics. Habitual Defenses. Locus and Nature of Reduced Cue Utilization. Stress, Arousal, and Range of Cue Utilization. Other Accounts of Altered Cue Utilization in Schizophrenia Silverman's Account of Deviant Attention in Schizophrenia. The Process-Reactive Distinction. Using the Broadbent Model. Suggestions from the Yates and Cromwell-Dokecki Theories. Physiological Arousal in Schizophrenia Using the Concept of an Arousal Dimension. Arousal Levels in Schizophrenics. Decreased Arousal When Stress Is Increased. Heart Rate Change as a Stimulus for and Response to Physiological Inhibition. Anticipatory Physiological Set. Summary Comments on Arousal in Schizophrenia. Concluding Remarks References Author Index—Subject Index. •> ISBN 0-12-293450-4