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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17] [7] characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7]
Simple-type schizophrenia is a sub-type of schizophrenia included in the International Classification of Diseases (), [1] in which it is classified as a mental and behaviour disorder. [2]
In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking [1]) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.
Sex differences in schizophrenia are widely reported. [1] [2] [3] Men and women exhibit different rates of incidence and prevalence, age at onset, symptom expression, course of illness, and response to treatment.
Disorganized schizophrenia, or hebephrenia, is an obsolete term for a subtype of schizophrenia.It is no longer recognized as a separate condition, following the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition in 2013, which dropped the concept of subtypes of schizophrenia, and global adoption of the eleventh revision of the International Classification ...