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  2. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17][7] characterized by hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved. [3][10] There is no objective diagnostic test; diagnosis is ...

  3. Epidemiology of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Schizophrenia is diagnosed 1.4 times more frequently in males than females, and typically appears earlier in men [7] —the peak ages of onset are 20–28 years for males and 26–32 years for females. [9] Onset in childhood, before the age of 13 can sometimes occur. [10][11] A later onset can occur between the ages of 40 and 60, known as late ...

  4. Prognosis of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The prognosis of schizophrenia is varied at the individual level. In general it has great human and economics costs. [1] It results in a decreased life expectancy of 12–15 years primarily due to its association with obesity, little exercise, and smoking, while an increased rate of suicide plays a lesser role. [1]

  5. Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale - Wikipedia

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    The Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS) is a medical scale used for measuring symptom severity of patients with schizophrenia. It was published in 1987 by Stanley Kay, Lewis Opler, and Abraham Fiszbein. It is widely used in the study of antipsychotic therapy. The scale is the "gold standard" for evaluating the effects of ...

  6. Basic symptoms of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms in Schizophrenia, a 1938 silent film. Basic symptoms of schizophrenia are subjective symptoms, described as experienced from a person's perspective, which show evidence of underlying psychopathology. Basic symptoms have generally been applied to the assessment of people who may be at risk to develop psychosis. Though basic symptoms are ...

  7. Diagnosis of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The diagnosis of schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder, is based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the World Health Organization 's International Classification of Diseases (ICD). [1] Clinical assessment of schizophrenia is carried out by a mental health ...

  8. History of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Scratch-drawings on the wall in St. Elizabeths Hospital made by a prisoner with "a disturbed case of dementia praecox". Paul Eugen Bleuler first used the term "schizophreniegruppe", on April 24, 1908, during a lecture at a meeting of the German Psychiatric Association in Berlin. [23] The word schizophrenia translates as "split mind" from the ...

  9. Causes of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    The causes of schizophrenia that underlie the development of schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder, are complex and not clearly understood.A number of hypotheses including the dopamine hypothesis, and the glutamate hypothesis have been put forward in an attempt to explain the link between altered brain function and the symptoms and development of schizophrenia.

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