Question

1. What are some symptoms of initial stages of childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS)?​

2.Discuss the connection between vulnerability and stress in the cause of COS.​

Answer 1

1.

Symptoms of initial stages of childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) include onset that is characterized before 13 years of age including; disorganized speech, hallucinations, delusions, catatonic behavior and "negative symptoms", like; inappropriate or blunted affect and avolition.

2. The connection between vulnerability and stress in the cause of COS includes the fact that; some people are biologically vulnerable to certain psychiatric disorders due to their genetic predisposition to it. Stress in the environment triggers the expression of these genes and hence can worsen biological vulnerability, and cause relapses as well.