Synonym: dementia praecox, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis. Similar words: denial, genial, menial, schism, threnody, threatening, eugenia, deniable. Meaning: [‚skɪtsəʊ'frɪːnɪə] n. any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
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31 The trial was told that he was diagnosed as suffering paranoid schizophrenia.
32 Thus some investigators have argued that the association is one, not with schizophrenia, but with affective psychosis.
33 Next month's summit-at-sea may see a resolution of the Bush Administration's schizophrenia over Moscow.
34 We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia, and she tells us to be quiet.
35 Genetic evidence A number of studies have now firmly established the existence of a genetic component in the transmission of schizophrenia.
36 Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that can cause, among other things, visual and auditory hallucinations, delusions and distorted thinking.
37 The first type - active familial disruption - involved a woman in her thirties who was considered to be suffering from schizophrenia.
38 The complete lack of cognitive improvements leads them to suggest that cognitive impairment is intrinsically associated with long-term morbidity in schizophrenia.
39 The authors' purpose in this paper was to attempt to dissect psychiatric symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia.
40 Actually, contrary to popular belief, hallucinations were not part of the original definition of schizophrenia.
41 Soon, Michael would be diagnosed with schizophrenia, the most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses.
42 The scientists studied nine large families in Utah and Colorado with multiple cases of schizophrenia.
43 Acute schizophrenia can severely impair mothering skills when maternal distress leads to distraction and neglect.
44 Both schizophrenia and mood disorders show evidence of decreased activity in frontal lobes and abnormal function of the system for directed attention.
45 Geneticists produced and analysed statistics, primarily relating to morbidity levels among relatives of individuals suffering from schizophrenia.
46 The feeling is, rather, that a certain genetic vulnerability is inherited which may or may not lead to schizophrenia.
47 It inevitably strikes the reader of Out that the main character enters periodically into what in many respects resembles schizophrenia.
48 In addition to these signs of affective psychosis Kempe also showed features of schizophrenia, notably hallucinations, occurring in several modalities.
49 They say he also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, a condition that produces intricate delusions that may have clouded his judgment.
50 The distress they show has been subsumed into other more modern conditions like schizophrenia, which can not be so readily seen.
51 Marsha has read that clozapine has done wonders for people with schizophrenia who have not been helped by other meds.
52 Enlarged ventricles have been found in an identical twin who develops schizophrenia, compared to the one who does not.
53 In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.
54 But particular abnormalities in biochemistry have been linked to schizophrenia since it was first discovered that hallucinatory drugs could induce a psychosis.
55 Origins of schizophrenia Schizophrenia is primarily a thought disorder, whereas depression is dominated by a mood disorder.
56 Incidentally, what is the concordance in schizophrenia in identical twins?
57 Also patients with schizophrenia, organic states,(sentencedict.com) and some suffering from alcoholism. 2.
58 The incidence of schizophrenia in the adoptive parents has little influence.
59 Patients with depression, phobia, and obsessions were helped the most, patients with schizophrenia not as reliably.
60 Objective To probe the prodromal symptoms in schizophrenia.
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