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One of the important implications of socio–developmental–cognitive models of schizophrenia, is that attempts to reduce stress, and application of psychological and social therapies, may interrupt the vicious cycle that leads to paranoia and psychosis.[Howes & Murray, 2014] Because the models postulate that dopaminergic dysregulation is a result of the altered cognitive schema, these interventions would be best administered early in the disease process, before psychotic patterns of interpreting events have been hardwired by changes in dopamine circuitry in the brain.[Howes & Murray, 2014]
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