Schizophrenia Nature Vs Nurture

For years scientists and researchers have been studying the nature versus nurture debate among mental and physical topics. In this essay, studies are used to show both nature and nurture are equally important in Schizophrenia through environmental factors, biological factors, and how the two affect each other. Nurture: the environmental factors of growing up to make who you are, or nature: the biological way you are born and how those genetics cause physical and mental traits. Schizophrenia is a mental disease that’s causes someone’s interpretation of reality to be skewed (Rudolf Uher, 2013). The mental illness controls all their thoughts and feelings, changing the way they see and experience life. Based on articles and scientific studies,

Similar to those, these environmental problems can begin “as early as in the womb, up to teenage years”, says Dr. Jordan Smoller a lead researcher in a mental disorder genetic study. From a mothers drug addiction, having an abandoned childhood, or simply smoking cannabis and cigarettes can all lead to vulnerability of schizophrenia (Lauren Neergaard, 2013). Despite this all happening in the younger years of life, these problems become more prominent in adolescence. For example, Aiden Corvin writes about twenty one year old Paul. “Schizophrenia also affects Paul’s emotional and verbal responsiveness, motivation and insight,” says Corvin. For any schizophrenic person, they may have had a very discouraging childhood, which will carry with them through the mental illness, making them depressed among other causes. Luckily, a combination of nature and nurture is necessary to be exposed toward the chances of being diagnosed with

For nature, that includes all the genetic mutations either inherited from parents, or gained because of the nurture components, as well as those protein production issues that can be in any gene. Those environment components can be from parental drug abuse in the womb, an abandoning childhood to smoking cannabis or cigarettes. The impact of this is that genes do not function normally making learning, memorizing and being happy a lot harder as well as any other gene affected. The debate of nature versus nurture is clearly over on the topic of schizophrenia. There can be no winner, it is simply a tie thanks to all the scientific studies and breakthroughs made in the past half-decade that conclude unfortunately, there is no exact cure for schizophrenia because there is no single cause, and every patient is