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Monday, September 5, 2011

Schizophrenia



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Important Terms
  • Schizophrenia
    • psychotic mental disorder characterized by profound disturbances in thinking, feeling and behaviour
    • one of the most studied, but remains one of the least understood of all the psychopathological disorders
    • diagnosis is based on the presence of a set of signs and symptoms
    • if patient is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is symptomatic then he is in a psychotic state; if there are no delusions/halllucinations then he is in remission.