Schizophrenia - paranoid type

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Definition

Paranoid type schizophrenia is a mental illness that involves false beliefs of being persecuted or plotted against.


Alternative Names

Paranoid schizophrenia


Causes, incidence, and risk factors



Review Date: 02/07/2010
Reviewed By: David B. Merrill, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)

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