The Cause Of Schizophrenia
Symptoms
Doctors often group symptoms of schizophrenia into three categories: Positive, negative, and cognitive.
Positive Symptoms
Positive symptoms include the psychotic symptoms that are most often associated with schizophrenia. Psychotic symptoms usually occur every now and then, alternating with periods of remission. These symptoms include:
- Hallucinations. A hallucination is the experience of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or feeling something that doesn't really exist. Auditory...
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Schizophrenia: Risk Factors
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
CausesThe cause of schizophrenia is unknown. Scientists think that schizophrenia may develop from a combination of genetic, brain chemistry, and... Read more »
Schizophrenia
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have... Read more »
Schizophrenia
Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Article updated and reviewed by Christos Ballas, MD, Attenting Psychiatrist, Inpatient and Consult/Liaison Psychiatry, Hospital of the University of... Read more »
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: paranoid type
Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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