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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia - Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness characterized by persistent defects in the perception or expression of reality. A person experie...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Diagnosis
Schizophrenia - Criteria signs and symptoms.
Like many mental illnesses, the diagnosis of schizophrenia is based upon the behavior of t...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia And Drug Use
The relationship between schizophrenia and drug use is complex, meaning that a clear causal connection between drug use and schizophrenia...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia And Violence
Schizophrenia - Violence perpetrated by people with schizophrenia.
Although schizophrenia is sometimes associated with violence in the ...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Prognosis
Prognosis for any particular individual affected by schizophrenia is particularly hard to judge as treatment and access to treatment is c...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Alternative Approaches To Schizophrenia
An approach broadly known as the anti-psychiatry movement, notably most active in the 1960s, has opposed the orthodox medical view of sch...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Incidence And Prevalence
Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed in late adolescence or early adulthood. It is found approximately equally in men and women, though t...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Overview
Schizophrenia is often described in terms of "positive" and "negative" symptoms. Positive symptoms include delusions, auditory hallucinat...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - History
Accounts that may relate to symptoms of schizophrenia date back as far as 2000 BC in the Book of Hearts, part of the ancient Ebers papyru...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Causes
Schizophrenia - Genetic and environmental influences.
While the reliability of the schizophrenia diagnosis introduces difficulties in m...
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Schizophrenia: Encyclopedia Ii - Schizophrenia - Treatment
Schizophrenia - Medication and hospitalization.
The first line treatment for schizophrenia is usually the use of antipsychotic medicati...
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