... the brain. Symptoms of incorrect dopamine message interpretation include hearing voices and maintaining bizarre beliefs that are unsupported by fact. Support for this theory comes from evidence that indicates dopamine antagonists, or drugs that decrease dopamine activity, also decrease psychotic, or positive, symptoms of schizophrenia (Hemmings, 1989). In addition Hemmings (1989) states, drugs that increase dopamine activity in the brain, such ... ...

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