Schizophrenia is a psychiatric illness that can be profoundly disabling and is usually chronic in nature. The cause is not known, but there appears to be a genetic predisposition. The etiology has been conceptualized in a stress/diathesis...

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that interferes with normal thought processes, causing delusions, hallucinations, mental disorganization, and physical symptoms. Schizophrenia is perhaps the most severe common mental disorder. It affects men and women...

Schizophrenia, the most serious, complicated, and disabling of all mental illnesses, is a brain disorder which severely interferes with an individual's ability to think clearly, make decisions, and separate reality from what's happening in their mind....

Schizophrenia A mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, delusions, hallucinations, emotional disturbance, and withdrawal from reality. Some experts view schizophrenia as a group of related illnesses with similar characteristics. The...

Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind"), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of...

Schizophrenia A. Weizman, M. Pivorotski and V. Tal Prolog, Rosh Haayin, 96 pp, 1999, NIS 29 I was very pleased that a booklet has finally been published on the subject of schizophrenia. Since my illness began 14 years ago I have searched...

It is generally accepted within the clinical and research community that cognitive dysfunctions represent a core feature of schizophrenia. Although neuropsychological studies in schizophrenia patients have repeatedly shown that multiple domains of cognition are affected, episodic memory measures consistently show the largest effect size,...

AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a new formulation of its popular Seroquel schizophrenia treatment, making it the first medicine to treat both the manic and depressive sides of bipolar disorder....

New findings on marijuana's damaging effect on the brain show the drug triggers temporary psychotic symptoms in some people, including hallucinations and paranoid delusions, doctors say.British doctors took brain scans of 15 healthy volunteers given small doses of two of the active ingredients of cannabis,...

Defines Delusional Schizophrenia and the basic subtypes of schizophrenia . Details symptoms and rates of incidents. Explores treatments. Describes the real life experiences of Nobel Prize Winner John Nash.

Defines the mental disorder, Schizophrenia. Explains that there are different types of schizophrenia and they each have different symptoms and affect a person's life in different ways. Explores causes and treatments.

People who have the chronic, disabling brain disease schizophrenia have been found to have a higher than average incidence of crime. Neither the improper management of schizophrenic people by police officers and the current approach of placing potentially dangerous schizophrenics in prison provide the treatment these people need to get better and stop committing the same crimes over and over again. To reduce the crime rate among schizophrenics, we must enact new policies that take the schizophrenic condit