Schizophrenia Articles

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• Losing My Mind
  I was born three months premature, along with my twin sister. I guess you could say that I was a fighter from the start, weighing in at only 1 lb. 9 oz. I was ...
• Schizophrenia’s Voice
  I would perhaps start with explaining that everything that I say is honest and true, the reason being that some of it may be unbelievable, but then I find many of the stories I have ...
• Do People Inherit Schizophrenia?
  One possible cause of schizophrenia may be heredity, or genetics. Researchers believe that some people may inherit a tendency to schizophrenia. In fact, the disorder tends to run in families, but only among blood relatives. People ...
• Frequently Asked Questions about Schizophrenia
  What is schizophrenia? Schizophrenia is a mental illness, but is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "brain disease." It is officially classified by researchers as a mental disorder, not a medical disease, because there is no ...
• Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
  The undifferentiated subtype is diagnosed when people have symptoms of schizophrenia that are not sufficiently formed or specific enough to permit classification of the illness into one of the other subtypes. The symptoms of any ...
• Residual Schizophrenia
  This subtype is diagnosed when the patient no longer displays prominent symptoms. In such cases, the schizophrenic symptoms generally have lessened in severity. Hallucinations, delusions or idiosyncratic behaviors may still be present, but their ...
• Post-Schizophrenic Depression
  Post-schizophrenia depression describes a depressive episode that arises in the aftermath of a schizophrenic illness. Some schizophrenic symptoms may still be present but no longer dominate the clinical picture. These persisting schizophrenic symptoms may ...
• Catatonic Schizophrenia
  The predominant clinical features seen in the catatonic subtype of schizophrenia involve disturbances in a person's movement. Affected people may exhibit a dramatic reduction in activity, to the point that voluntary movement stops, as in ...
• Disorganized Schizophrenia
  As the name implies, this subtype's predominant feature is disorganization of the thought processes. As a rule, hallucinations and delusions are less pronounced, although there may be some evidence of these symptoms. These people may ...
• Paranoid Schizophrenia
  The defining feature of the paranoid subtype is the presence of auditory hallucinations or prominent delusional thoughts about persecution or conspiracy. However, people with this subtype may be more functional in their ability to work ...
• Cannabis is linked to schizophrenia in predisposed individuals
  Cannabis has long been thought to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia. However, the evidence is still not fully conclusive. The first study on schizophrenia and cannabis took place in Jamaica in the 1960, when ...
• Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia
  Richard McLean has written a fascinating book on schizophrenia entitled, 'Recovered, Not Cured, a journey through schizophrenia', published by Allen and Unwin in 2003 in Australia. It has received a highly commended in the Human ...
• Surviving Schizophrenia
  Surviving Schizophrenia: A Manual for Families, Consumers, and Providers Since its first publication in 1983, Surviving Schizophrenia has become the standard reference book on the disease and has helped thousands of patients, their families and mental ...