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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 th...
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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. T...
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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,...
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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
(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 ...
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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 hallu...
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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 term...
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Schizophrenia
[disambiguation] Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis. Schizophrenia may also refer to: ==Music== ==Others== ...
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Schizophrenia
[Sepultura album] Schizophrenia is the second studio album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1987 through Cogumelo Records. It is the first album of the band with Andreas Kisser. The album`s sound leans more towards the thrash metal genre than the previous album Morbid Vis...
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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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schizophrenia
Type: Term Pronunciation: skiz′ō-frē′nē-ă, skit-sō- Definitions: 1. A term coined by Bleuler, synonymous with and replacing dementia praecox, denoting a common type of psychosis, characterized by abnormalities in perception, content of thought, and thought proces...
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schizophrenia
Mental disorder, a psychosis of unknown origin, which can lead to profound changes in personality, behaviour, and perception, including delusions and hallucinations. It is more common in males and the early-onset form is more severe than when the illness develops in later life. Modern treatment appr...
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Schizophrenia
This is a psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking and speech inappropriate emotions and/or lack of emotions. It is characterised by serious disturbances of thought and perception which cannot be attributed to brain damage.
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Schizophrenia
A chronic mental disorder characterized by psychosis (e.g., hallucinations and delusions), flattened emotions, and impaired cognitive function.
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