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    The History of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability‚ detachment from reality‚ and withdrawal into the self. The word "Schizophrenia" is less than 100 years old. However the disease was first identified as a discrete mental illness by Dr. Emile Kraepelin in the 1887 and the illness itself is generally believed to have accompanied mankind throughout its history. There are documents that identify Schizophrenia can be traced to the old

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    Causes Of Schizophrenia

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    Schizophrenia is a category of mental illness of the psychotic disorders. Psychosis refers to specific abnormalities of cognition that include delusions and hallucinations. The abnormalities of Schizophrenia are often divided into 3 categories. The first being cognitive which deals with abnormalities of attention and planning abilities. The second category of abnormalities of Schizophrenia is often called negative symptoms which can include blunted emotions and a loss of enjoyment. The third category

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    Childhood Schizophrenia

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    Schizophrenia is a mental illness which affects millions of people throughout the world. Scientists have begun to understand more and more about the possible causes‚ predisposing factors‚ types‚ and possible treatments for schizophrenia. (Torrey‚ 1995) It is very rare for schizophrenic symptoms to appear before the age of 12 but it does occur. Recently‚ there has been a growing interest in childhood schizophrenia. It is less than one-sixtieth as common as the adult-onset type but the characteristics

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    Describe two explanations of schizophrenia and evaluate these explanations (9 and 16 marks) Two explanations of schizophrenia are the biological perspective and the psychological perspective. The biological perspective involves genetic factors that influence schizophrenia‚ however the psychological perspective involves environmental factors in which you learn the behaviour of a schizophrenic. The first explanation is the biological perspective‚ it has two subtypes‚ these are biochemical and

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    Evaluate the key drugs used to treat schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is one of the most common severe mental disorders effecting between 0.5% and 1% of the population (Sartorius at al‚ 1986) and is greatly discussed as not being a single condition but rather a combination of related issues and has several criteria’s in existence to help in the diagnosis. DSM-IV-TR (APA 2000) states that two or more symptoms including delusions‚ hallucinations‚ disorganised speech‚ catatonic behaviour or negative

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    Paranoid Schizophrenia Megan B. Sasser Psychology 100-WI Dr. Gwynne Pacheco May 5‚ 2010 Schizophrenia For almost twenty years Ian Chovil (n.d.) was unaware that his behaviors and thoughts were the results from the disabling brain disorder known as schizophrenia. Although Ian was able to go to college and earn his undergraduate degree‚ he failed graduate school‚ had no friends‚ hardly spoke with family‚ was unable to hold a job for very long‚ and even went homeless for a time. In a frightening

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    Genetics and Schizophrenia

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    discuss whether schizophrenia is genetically inherited disorder. There will be an understanding to what schizophrenia is with a brief description in the introduction. This essay will also talk about weather schizophrenia is genetically inherited or weather it is a biological (Inherited) disorder. It will also include weather schizophrenia is cause by other factors such as social factors‚ environmental‚ pre natal‚ childhood and neurobiology. The essay will also state weather schizophrenia is caused by

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    Childhood Schizophrenia

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    Schizophrenia is an illness that was named by Eugen Bleuler in 1908. Bleuler named the illness Schizophrenia because the illness is essentially the splitting of the mind that causes the mind to no longer function as a whole‚ with behavior‚ emotion‚ and reason working together. It does not mean there are multiple personalities‚ but rather multiple realities (FUSAR-POLI‚ PAOLO‚ and PIERLUIGI POLITI). Schizophrenia is one of the most difficult mental illnesses to understand because every culture has

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    About 1% of the world’s population have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder affecting how a person thinks‚ feels‚ and acts. The causes of schizophrenia are still unknown although some theories include a person’s genetics and biology. A person with schizophrenia will experience many different signs‚ symptoms and behaviors‚ and treatments. Statistically Schizophrenia affects more males than females and symptoms most commonly start to show up in an individual

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    Living with Schizophrenia

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    Living with Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a disorder that has many areas involved in it including major disturbances in perception‚ language‚ thought‚ emotion‚ and behavior. It is really sad to know that some people have such severe cases that they cannot operate in the everyday world and are forced to be institutionalized. World-wide we see that at least one in every 250 people is affected by schizophrenia at some point in their lives (Karagianis‚ Hill‚ 2010). This is quite a large amount

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