“Schizophrenia is a debilitating brain disorder characterized by a range of emotional and cognitive dysfunctions that affect thought‚ feelings‚ communication‚ perception‚ attention‚ behavior monitoring‚ mood or affect‚ speech‚ drive‚ and the ability to make decisions. Individuals with schizophrenia exhibit varying degrees of psychosis.(Quick Lesson)” Schizophrenia affects about 1% of the population (Viewpoint). The cause of schizophrenia is not certain‚ but is thought to be combination of genetic
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Paranoid Schizophrenia Before to start the case study on Markus who has the most common type of schizophrenic disorder‚ let’s define what is it‚ what are the causes‚ symptoms‚ and treatments. Paranoid Schizophrenia is the most common schizophrenic disorder. As in paranoid disorders‚ Paranoid Schizophrenia centers on delusions of grandeur and persecution. However‚ paranoid schizophrenics also hallucinate‚ and their delusions are more bizzare and unconvincing than those in a delusional disorder
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focuses on the diagnosis of schizophrenia‚ a major mental illness with much stigma and misinformation associated with it. World Health Organisation (WHO‚ 2012) epidemiological evidence suggests that schizophrenia is a mental illness affecting 24 million people worldwide. This essay will define schizophrenia and its characteristic signs and symptoms in relation to cognition‚ mood‚ behaviour and psychosocial functioning. The criteria enabling a diagnosis of schizophrenia are explored‚ as well as contemporary
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Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder that disables the brain and prevents it from functioning normally. Schizophrenia is proven to be a chronic disease‚ which is a disease that is relentless in the person or is long-lasting in its effects. The disease is equally as common in one gender as it is the other‚ and it can can affect a human as early as 5 years old. Symptoms tend to develop in the early years of people. Over the last few years‚ the amount of people diagnosed with
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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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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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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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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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