Imagine not being able to properly understand and process stimuli from the outside world

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Imagine not being able to properly understand and process stimuli from the outside world. If you couldn't trust your basic senses, then, according to the researchers on a new study on schizophrenia, it is not too hard to imagine how the external world could begin to be experienced as bizarre and unreliable. These researchers conducted a series of experiments on sensory adaptation with patients with schizophrenia and control subjects and recorded the brain's responses. Researchers discovered that sensory adaptation was weaker in individuals with schizophrenia. For this discussion, read the article and answer the following questions.

Article:

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/912786

 

Questions:

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   1. What is schizophrenia?
   2. Discuss the experiment that was mentioned in the article.
   3. The article explains that researchers discovered that sensory adaptation was weaker in patients with schizophrenia than in individuals without schizophrenia. Why did the article state this?

 

Guidelines for this discussion:

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  • Answer question 1 in complete sentences.
  •  least a paragraph (five sentences) for question 2.
  •  least a paragraph (five sentences) for question 3.
  • Use at least one in-text citation.
  • Include the reference at the end of your discussion.