People with schizophrenia have abnormal high levels of dopamine- findings led to development of dopamine hypothesissynapses that use the dopamine are overactive
Strengths
Antipsychotic drugs reduce the symptoms of schizophrenia by blocking dopamine receptors
Weakness
Antipsychotics only work on positive symptomsdopamine function doesn’t explain negative symptoms
Correlation doesn’t showcase cause and effect
Neurological
Abnormal brain structures
patients have enlarged ventricles suggest schizophrenia is linked with the reduction in the temporal and frontal lobe
Strengths- MRI scans showed abnormalities
Weakness- findings are correlation at no cause and effect
