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schizophrenia is most characterized by
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by a patient’s abnormal misinterpretation of reality, referred to as psychosis. The patient’s behavior seems bizarre to others because the behavior is inappropriate to reality. However, the behavior is appropriate to the patient based on their misperception of reality. For example, all of us become paranoid when walking down […]
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Biological interventions for schizophrenia
Biological interventions for schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a type of psychotic disorder. A person with a psychotic disorder loses some contact with reality.When this happens antipsychotic medication (also known as neuroleptics) can be prescribed to help. Antipsychotic medication can reduce or alleviate symptoms (voices, irrational beliefs and delusions) in up to 70 per cent of peoplewho […]
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schizophrenia definition and symptoms
schizophrenia definition and symptoms Schizophrenia is a mental illness, which is characterized by profound distortions in the person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour. The person starts to see the world very differently from the way they normally do and from the way others see it. The person loses touch with reality. Schizophrenia can happen to anyone […]
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Schizophrenia and Pregnancy
Schizophrenia and Pregnancy Though a significant proportion of postpartum psychosis has been linked to underlying diagnosis of bipolar spectrum illness, women with non-affective psychotic illness (i.e. schizophrenia) represent an important proportion of women who experience an exacerbation of symptoms in the perinatal period. There is a relative paucity of literature on the course of psychosis […]
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mental health disorders schizophrenia articles:Risk factor for mental disorders
mental health disorders schizophrenia articles:Risk factor for mental disorders.The first hypothesis explored whether those who have had direct experience with schizophrenia demonstrate a better overall understanding of the illness, as it is currently explained by mental health professionals. Direct experience was not found to cause significant improvements in overall understanding. However, having suffered from the […]
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positive and negative symptoms schizophrenia
Positive and Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia Strauss, Carpenter, & Bartko introduced the distinction between positive and negative symptoms, promoting awareness of an important aspect of heterogeneity in schizophrenia. Carpenter emphasized the challenge of this distinction to the conceptualization of schizophrenia. Positive symptoms are the presence of abnormal functioning, such as hallucinations and delusions, whereas negative […]
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Dopamine Hypothesis Catatonic Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Dopamine Hypothesis The second major development in biological approaches to schizophrenia was the demonstration of at least some therapeutic benefit from neuroleptics or antipsychotic drugs in treating schizophrenia and the determination that it is positive rather than negative symptoms (see later for this distinction) that respond to these drugs. The therapeutic efficacy of antipsychotic […]
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Schizophrenia Genetic Studies
The massive literature on the genetics of schizophrenia can be assimilated into a multifactorial polygenic model but cannot be made to fit a singlemajor-locus model with high penetrance. There is no clear evidence against a simple multifactorial polygenic model, but Gottesman notes the possibility of a mixed model. This model includes a small number of […]
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Is Schizophrenia Genetic or Environmental
Is Schizophrenia Genetic or Environmental?Many family studies have been conducted to establish that a familial association exists between these disorders and schizophrenia, but fewer twin and adoption studies have been conducted to investigate the role that genetic influences play in their etiology. As stated earlier, different models exist to explain the genetic transmission of the […]
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General Characteristics of Schizophrenia
Three traits were observed more frequently among the biological relatives of schizophrenic probands: suspiciousness, flat affect, and withdrawn behavior. Psychotic-like features (e.g., cognitive and perceptual distortions) were not observed. Subsequent twin studies have replicated these findings. In a series of studies conducted with the Norwegian Twin Registry, Torgersen found a higher frequency of SPD among […]
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