Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Preventing Relapse
People with schizophrenia are encouraged to follow some basic advice in order to manage their illness and avoid…
Schizophrenia Outcome
In 1994, a study by J.D. Hegarty and colleagues examined existing data to figure out just how likely…
The Schizophrenia Prognosis
In summary, fewer than 20 percent of patients with a first episode of schizophrenia have a good prognosis.…
10 Warning signs of schizophrenia as identified by family members
1. Deterioration of personal hygiene
2. Sleeping excessively or inability to sleep
3. …
Stages of schizophrenia
Researchers have identified three stages of schizophrenia:
Prodromal Stage. The first stage is called the prodromal…
The Course of Schizophrenia
Kevin recently attended his first appointment at the mental health clinic. At 25 years of age, Kevin lives…
Misdiagnosis, or other disorders that may look like schizophrenia
It is crucial to realize that schizophrenia is not the cause of all psychotic symptoms. Psychosis is a…
Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Once a patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia, a clinician considers his or her symptoms and determines a subtype…
Diagnostic Criteria
All the behaviors you just read about may be symptoms of schizophrenia, although very few patients with schizophrenia…
Symptom Categories
Schizophrenia is a disease that does not discriminate based on race, culture, social status, or gender. Anywhere in…
Diagnosing Schizophrenia
Emilio is a 40-year-old man who came to the hospital with his mother. He is dressed in a…
Schizophrenia Treatment approaches
General principles
While antipsychotic drugs remain the cornerstone of treatment in child and adolescent onset schizophrenia,…
Schizophrenia Course and Outcome
Short-term course
Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia characteristically runs a chronic course, with only a small…
Schizophrenia Neuropsychology
Pattern of cognitive deficits
There is growing awareness that cognitive deficits in schizophrenia represent a core…
Schizophrenia Genetics
Genetic risk and early onset schizophrenia
If there is a continuum of transmitted liability for schizophrenia…
Aetiology and risk factors - Schizophrenia
Pregnancy and birth complications
Pregnancy and birth complications (PBCs) have been implicated as a risk factor…
Neurobiology of schizophrenia
Neurodevelopmental models of schizophrenia
Over the last decade the concept of schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder…
Schizophrenia Diagnosis and differential diagnosis
Diagnostic validity
There is now compelling evidence that schizophrenia can be identified using unmodified adult criteria…
Schizophrenia Epidemiology
Incidence and prevalence
Good population-based incidence figures for child and adolescent onset schizophrenia are notably lacking.…
Schizophrenia Differential Diagnosis
Psychotic symptoms in children and adolescents are diagnostically non-specific, occurring in a wide range of functional psychiatric, neurodevelopmental…
Schizophrenia clinical features
Clinical phases of schizophrenia
Premorbid social and developmental impairments
Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia…
Child and adolescent onset schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is one of the most devastating psychiatric disorders to affect children and adolescents. Although extremely rare before…
Schizophrenia Neurobiological correlates
Postmortem and neuroimaging studies have provided evidence of structural and physiological abnormalities in the brains of patients with…
Models of schizophrenia
Categorical models
Interest in negative symptoms re-emerged in the 1970s, as exemplified by Strauss and Carpenter…
Course of positive and negative symptoms - Schizophrenia
The symptoms of schizophrenia are important both clinically and theoretically. There is great interest in identifying the course…
The symptoms of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is characterized by a multiplicity of symptoms arising from almost all domains of mental function, e.g. language,…
Diagnostic criteria for related psychotic disorders
Schizotypal disorder in ICD-10 is classified in the ‘Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders’ section as this disorder is…
Course and subtypes of schizophrenia
Both ICD-10 and DSM-IV provide broadly similar classifications of longitudinal course. The subtypes of schizophrenia included in both…
ICD-10 and DSM-IV concepts of schizophrenia and related disorders
Although attempts have been made to bridge the gap between ICD-10 and DSM-IV and move them closer, significant…
Modern classifications of schizophrenia and their limitations
ICD-10 and DSM-IV provide the criteria for diagnosing schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. At best, they can only…
Empirical approaches to the classification of schizophrenia
Many of the clinical concepts of schizophrenia summarized so far, selected from a range that could be broadened…
The concept of disease
Disease as entity or as deviation from normal functioning
Kendell (1987) has pointed out that none…
The concept of autism
Bleuler (1919) regarded autism as one of the fundamental features of schizophrenia. He described it as an active…
The phenomena of schizophrenia
Many attempts have been made to carry forward, refine or break up the syndromes described by the two…
Early schizophrenia concepts
Griesinger
There has been no time since attempts at classification began when controversy about the nature…
Concepts of schizophrenia
Each account of the concept of ‘schizophrenia’ reaches into the past from a viewpoint in a contemporary present.…
Who Suffers from Schizophrenia?
According to the National Institute for Mental Health, Schizophrenia strikes one percent of the population worldwide, including approximately…
Schizophrenia
The word schizophrenia conjures images of a nightmare world where strange and twisted realities exist. Schizophrenia is a…
Parasite may trigger schizophrenia
The parasite that causes toxoplasmosis has been linked to schizophrenia, and biologists in the UK may have discovered…
Research supports toxoplasmosis link to schizophrenia
Scientists have discovered how the toxoplasmosis parasite may trigger the development of schizophrenia and other bipolar disorders.
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Scientists propose new direction in the search for genetic causes of schizophrenia
A new study shows that schizophrenia is caused, at least in part, by large, rare structural changes in…
Altered Brain Activity in Schizophrenia May Direct Focus on Self
Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by overactivating a brain system that is involved…
Glutamate: Too much of a good thing in schizophrenia?
Is schizophrenia a disorder of glutamate hyperactivity or hypoactivity? While the predominant hypothesis for many years was that…
New Candidate Genes for Schizophrenia Identified
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disease characterized by disorganized behavior, delusions and hallucinations. Sadly, there is no…
MU brain imaging center provides research for autism, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease
Recently, the University of Missouri Department of Psychological Sciences introduced an addition to their field of research with…
Stress of war may help cause schizophrenia -study
Pregnant women who live through wars are more likely to give birth to a child who develops schizophrenia,…
Researchers find a partially shared genetic profile between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder can be disabling conditions, and both present clinically with significant mood and psychotic…
Violence declines with medication use in some with schizophrenia
Some schizophrenia patients become less prone to violence when taking medication, but those with a history of childhood…
Research: Coping with Anxiety, Depression, Schizophrenia
Research is shedding new light on what happens in the brains of children and adults affected by clinical…
Researchers Pinpoint Gene Mutations Responsible for 10 Percent of Schizophrenia
Scans of the genome of patients with schizophrenia have revealed rare spontaneous copy number mutations that account for…
Hopkins researchers discover new link to schizophrenia
Neuroscientists at Johns Hopkins have discovered that mice lacking an enzyme that contributes to Alzheimer disease exhibit a…
Schizophrenia: A Review
Schizophrenia is a debilitating mental illness that affects 1 percent of the population in all cultures. It affects…
Persistent Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: An Overview
Persistent negative symptoms represent an alternative approach for assessing negative symptoms in the context of clinical trials.
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Patients with Schizophrenia More Likely to Have Medical Complications
A Johns Hopkins study of more than 1,700 patients with schizophrenia hospitalized for medical or surgical care…
Schizophrenia: Newer Medicines
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic, disabling illness that may be caused by abnormal amounts…
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