After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Discuss the history of diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia, as well as the current criteria for schizophrenia and disorders that are similar to it.
2. Define and describe delusions and hallucinations, as well as the different types of delusions and hallucinations, and how they vary and do not vary across cultures.
3. Describe the disorganized thought and speech in schizophrenia.
4. Distinguish between Type I and Type II symptoms, as well as between prodromal and residual symptoms.
5. Identify the key features of each of the five subtypes of schizophrenia: paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual.
6. Discuss the evidence for a genetic transmission of schizophrenia, and which people are most at risk for developing schizophrenia.
7. Discuss the brain areas implicated in schizophrenia, as well as their functions, and be able to discuss how they are different in the brains of people with schizophrenia compared to people without schizophrenia.
8. Discuss the progression of hypotheses that implicate the neurotransmitter dopamine as a key agent in the development and treatment of schizophrenia, and how different drugs can affect dopamine.
9. Discuss the psychosocial factors associated with schizophrenia, the evidence for them, and their limits.
10. Discuss the drug therapies most commonly prescribed for schizophrenia, their side effects, which symptoms they treat most effectively, and which ones they do not.
11. Discuss the psychological and social interventions designed for people with schizophrenia.