Is there a biological basis for schizophrenia?

We have now looked at three different biological explanations of schizophrenia - genetics, biochemistry and neuroanatomy. Each has different strengths and weaknesses as you might expect. It's always good to add in some issues, debates or approaches if possible- and here you can add in some criticisms of the biological approach in general - accusations of being reductionist, mechanistic and deterministic.

The Biological explanations powerpoint is here.