Actually, we’ve known this for a long, long time. But the significance for those on this forum is that sz is physiologically and neurochemically the diametric opposite of Parkinson’s. Read on…
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However does psychosis /schizophrenia= high dopamine = high risk taking? If so how does one account for people with psychosis/schizophrenia who are avoidant (less likely to risk take?) ?
I don’t think it’s as simple as psychosis/schizophrenia-high dopamine v Parkinson’s-low dopamine.
Positive affect / symptom sz is obvious (of course). Negative affect / symptom sz is less obvious, but becomes so when seen at the junction of psychodynamic and neurobiological explanations.
If one is more externalizing and angrily psychotic, the high risk taking is easy to understand. If one is more internalizing and fearfully psychotic, the expression of that energy as “avoidance” is (perhaps) easier to understand… especially when the avoidance is so extreme that it is self-destructive, and thus… risk-taking.
Make sense now?
I think that involves a very loose interpretation of risk taking.
Perhaps. But is avoidance risk-taking if one is so avoidant that they have no social support system when they really need one?