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   Schizophrenia
   A major mental disorder that affects about one in every hundred people. Although the symptoms vary from person to person, most people find it adversely affects their day to day lives at some stage. People with schizophrenia find it difficult to work as well as they did before because their thoughts are jumbled and unclear, so they have trouble concentrating. They may become so preoccupied with their thoughts and feelings that they fail to take care of themselves, not even eating or sleeping. Common symptoms include hearing voices (often referred to as auditory hallucinations) and unusual beliefs or delusions. The condition is predominantly treated with antipsychotic medication but psychological therapies have also proved effective in managing the symptoms.
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   schizophrenia
   [Noun] A mental illness. A person with schizophrenia finds it hard to relate to what is happening around them.
   See also: schizophrenic
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   Schizophrenia
   About 1 in every 100 people are affected by schizophrenia Its onset may start in a person's late teens or early twenties, Schizophrenia is a condition where an individual suffers disturbances to their thinking, perception, affect (mood, or how one feels) and behaviour. Schizophrenia does not equate to dangerousness. Symptoms of schizophrenia fall into two categories. Positive Symptoms include auditory hallucinations: hearing voices, hearing thoughts spoken aloud, hearing thoughts echo, the voices may come from outside or from within. Visual hallucinations: not as common as 'voices'. Tactile hallucinations: sensations of being touched, or feeling insects crawling (again, less common). Delusions: fixed, false beliefs, not in keeping with reality or the person's normal beliefs. For example delusions where the sufferer believes that others are trying to hurt or kill him/her. Delusions, where they believe others are somehow inserting thoughts into their head. Delusions where they believe their thoughts are being broadcast. Delusions of grandeur (believing you are someone else, John Lennon, Jesus Christ) etc. Thought disorder: thought blocking where there are sudden breaks in trains of thought, extremely interesting 'knights move' thinking where thoughts jump from one to another without appearing to be linked, 'word salad' where there is loss of the grammatical structure of speech, and 'neologisms' where the sufferer appears to invent their own words. Negative symptoms include a gradual lack of motivation in life, which is often accompanied by social withdrawal. Incongruity of affect can occur where the person laughs when the appropriate response should be sadness. Blunting of mood, where an individual become emotionless towards others. Deterioration in personal hygiene, poor social skills, recklessness etc. Schizophrenia is treatable. See dopamine hypothesis.
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   schizophrenia
   [n] - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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   Schizophrenia
   A group of psychotic disorders usually characterised by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioural, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects of the frontal lobe and is caused by genetic, biological and psychosocial factors.
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   schizophrenia
   (Learning Modules / Psychology / Measuring the unmeasurable) A severe mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired.
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   Schizophrenia
   Mental health problem characterised by intermittent psychosis. Autism was initially thought to be a childhood version of schizophernia, which is why it is sometimes called 'Infantile Psychosis'.
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   Schizophrenia
   a group of mental disorders characterised by abnormal thoughts, moods, and actions; sufferers have a distorted sense of reality, and a split personality (thoughts do not logically fit together)
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   Schizophrenia
   A mental health disorder characterised by disturbances of thinking, perception, emotion and behaviour. It is one of the more severe mental illnesses often leading to serious recurrent and long-term disability
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    Schizophrenia
    is a syndrome characterized by specific psychological manifestations, including auditory hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders and behavioural disturbances
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    Schizophrenia
    A serious mental illness which usually develops in the late teens or early twenties, where thoughts, feelings and actions are somewhat disconnected from each other. Symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, loss of energy and loss of interest in life.
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    Schizophrenia
    Our Schizophrenia Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia: One of several brain diseases whose symptoms that may include loss of personality (flat affect), agitation, catatonia, confusion, psychosis, unusual behavior, and withdrawal. The illness usually begins in early adulthood. The ...
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    schizophrenia
    a mental disorder characterized by a special type of desintegration of the personality Category: Medicine
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    schizophrenia
    <psychiatry> A mental disorder or heterogeneous group of disorders (the schizophrenias or schizophrenic disorders) comprising most major psychotic disorders and characterised by disturbances in form and content of thought (loosening of associations, delusions and hallucinations) mood (blunted, flattened or inappropriate affect), sense of self ...
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    schizophrenia
    schizophrenic disorder noun any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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    Schizophrenia
    `Schizophrenia`, from the Greek roots `schizein` and `phrēn`, `phren-` , is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction. Onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, wit...
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    schizophrenia
    (skit″so-fre´ne-ә) any of a large group of mental disorders that are characterized by mental deterioration from a previous level of functioning and have characteristic disturbances of multiple psychological processes, such as delusions, loosening of associations, poverty of the content of speech, auditory ha...
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    schizophrenia
    any of a group of severe mental disorders that have in common such symptoms as hallucinations, delusions, blunted emotions, disordered thinking, and ... [26 related articles]
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    schizophrenia
    (schizo + Gr. phrn mind + -ia) (DSM III-R) a mental disorder or heterogeneous group of disorders (the schizophrenias or schizophrenic disorders) comprising most major psychotic disorders and characterized by disturbances in form and content of thought (loosening of associations, delusions, and hallucinations) mood (blunted, flattened, or inappropri...
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    schizophrenia
    schizophrenia, schizophrenic 1. A severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, often with delusions and hallucinations, and withdrawal into the self. 2. The term schizophrenia was introduced in 1911 by Eugen Bleuler because neither early onset nor terminal deterioration is an essential feature of the mental disease. Bleuler des...
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    schizophrenia
    schizophrenia (skit"sufrē'nēu) , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, t...
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