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Jacobie Geer

Ms. Cole

English 4

February 28, 2019

Essential Question: What age groups are targeted by schizophrenia and what are the negative

effects on its host?

Working Thesis: What happens when an individual gets schizophrenia?

Refined Thesis: People may deal with different symptoms than others.

Service Annotated Bibliography

Piotrowski, Nancy A., Ph.D. Tischauser, Leslie V., Ph.D. “Schizophrenia.” Magill’s Medical

Guide (Online Edition), 2017.

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

clozapine use in schizophrenia.” Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica [Acta

Psychiatr Scand] 2017 Nov; Vol. 136 (5), pp. 445-454. Date of Electronic

Publication: 2017 July 25.

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

what they have.

Balter, Michael. “Schizophrenia’s Unyielding Mysteries.” Scientific American Mind, vol.

28, no. 4, July 2017, p. 50

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

why schizophrenia exists.

LUHRMANN, TANYA MARIE. “Beyond the Brain.” Wilson Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3,

Summer 2012, p. 28.

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.