Behavioral Schizophrenia
British researchers may have found a way to predict how people who suffer from schizophrenia will behave during a psychotic episode. Investigators compared the brain activity of 15 healthy volunteers before and after they were given ketamine, a psychosis drug that mimics schizophrenia symptoms. They found that increased brain activity during some tasks in the normal state predicted behaviors such as strange perceptions or disordered thoughts after participants took the drug. Scientists say...
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Schizophrenia: disorganized type
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Disorganized schizophrenia is a type of schizophrenia in which behavior is disturbed and has no purpose. Alternative Names Hebephrenic... Read more »
Schizophrenia: disorganized type
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Hebephrenic schizophrenia; Disorganized schizophrenia Symptoms Active behavior, but in an aimless and not constructive way ... Read more »
Schizophrenia: paranoid type
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Paranoid schizophreniaSymptomsPeople with paranoid schizophrenia may have mistaken beliefs (delusions) that one or more people are plotting against... Read more »
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