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Title: Nash was born and raised in Blue field, West Virginia. He was born ______ electrical engineer John Forbes Nash and his wife Margaret Virginia Martin, an English and Latin teacher. On November 16, 1930 his sister Martha Nash was born. He was an a____


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  • Nash was born and raised in Blue field, West
    Virginia. He was born ______ electrical engineer
    John Forbes Nash and his wife Margaret Virginia
    Martin, an English and Latin teacher. On November
    16, 1930 his sister Martha Nash was born. He was
    an a____ reader of Comptons Pictured
    Encyclopedia, Life Magazine and Time Magazine.

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  • At the age of twelve, he carried out
    scientific experiments in his room. At a young
    age, he already preferred to work alone.
  • Martha, his younger sister, wrote about him
    that "Johnny was always different. My parents
    knew he was different. And they knew he was
    bright. He always wanted to do things his way.
    Mother insisted I do things for him, that I
    include him in my friendships... but I wasn't too
    keen on showing off my somewhat odd brother."

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  • Game theory is a br_____ of applied
    mathematics that is used in the social sciences
    (most n______ economics), _______________________
    _________________________. Game theory attempts
    to mathematically c_____ behavior in strategic
    situations, in which an individual's success in
    making choices depends on the choices of others.
    It attempts to determine mathematically and
    logically the actions that players should take
    to s_____ the best outcomes for themselves in a
    wide ______ of games. The games it studies
    ______ from chess to child rearing and from
    tennis to takeovers. But the games all s______
    the common feature of interdependence. That is,
    the outcome for each participant depends on the
    choices (strategies) of all.

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  • The application of game theory to political
    science is focused on the overlapping areas of
    political economy, public choice, political
    theory, etc.
  • In each of these areas, researchers have
    developed game theoretic models in which the
    players are often voters, states, special
    interest groups, and politicians.

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  • Nash began to show signs of schizophrenia in
    1958. He began to show signs of extreme paranoia
    and his wife later described his behavior as
    becoming increasingly er____, stating that he
    began speaking of characters who were p_____ him
    in danger.
  • He was in and out of mental hospitals until
    1970, being given insulin shock theraphy and
    antipsychotic medications, usually as a result of
    being involuntarily com______.

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  • Schizophrenia (from the Greek roots schizein "to
    split" and phren, phren- "mind")
  • -abnormalities in the perception or expression
    of reality
  • - auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre
    delusions
  • - disorganized speech and thinking
  • - Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young
    adulthood.
  • --Contributory factors genetics, early
    environment, neurobiology, psychological and
    social processes

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  • Sometimes in common usage, the term paranoia is
    ______ (??) to describe a phobia. For example, a
    person may not want to fly ___ ____ ____fear the
    plane may crash. This does not in itself in_____
    paranoia, but rather a phobia. An example of
    paranoia, however, would be fear that the pilot
    is an alcoholic with no e_____ to suggest such,
    and would cr____ the plane as a result of this.
  • Paranoia is often associated with psychotic
    illnesses, sometimes schizophrenia.

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  • Schizophrenia (from the Greek roots schizein "to
    split" and phren, phren- "mind") is a psychiatric
    dianosis that describes a mental disorder
    characterized by abnormalities in the perception
    or expression of reality. It most commonly
    manifests as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or
    bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and
    thinking with significant social or occupational
    dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs
    in young adulthood.
  • Studies suggest that genetics, early environment,
    neurobiology, psychological and social processes
    are important contributory factors.

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  • Paranoia is a disturbed thought process ch_____
    by ex______ anxiety or fear, often to the ____ of
    ______ (irrational) and de_________. Paranoid
    thinking typically includes beliefs concerning a
    perceived threat towards yourself. In the
    original Greek, pa?????a (paranoia) simply means
    madness (para outside nous mind).
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