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    radial) 19 99% room air 126/68 (right arm) 0 Schizophrenia / mood disorders not otherwise specified Psychosocial R.S. admitting psychiatric diagnosis is Schizophrenia/ mood disorders not otherwise specified. Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects how people think, feel, and perceive the world. The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations and delusions The signs and symptoms of schizophrenia may be divided into 4 parts. Positive symptoms

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    Schizophrenia Case Study

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    interventions for the management of symptoms of schizophrenia. Emphasis is placed on early intervention as the recurrence of psychosis results in diminished cognitive functioning and severely impacts quality of life and functioning (Galletly et al., 2016). However, emerging evidence has shown that the acute presentation of schizophrenia can be delayed and potentially averted altogether (Galletly et al., 2016). Regardless of treatment phase, schizophrenia intervention is designed to mitigate system

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    Schizophrenia Treatment There is no cure for schizophrenia but it can be controlled with treatment. In this paper I will discuss the different types of treatments. Treatment with medications and psychosocial therapy can help relieve many symptoms of schizophrenia. A psychiatrist experienced with schizophrenia is usually the one to treat a person with this disease. Antipsychotic medications are the most commonly prescribed drug to treat this disease. They help to control symptoms by affecting the

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    Schizophrenia, also known as multiple personality disorder is a chronic psychological disorder characterized by agitations in cognition, delusion, hallucination, thought, and behavior disorder. Approximately one percent of the population develops this disorder during their lifetime, and it is more commonly seen throughout the teen years and early twenties in men than in women. This lifelong disorder is rarely cured, but in some cases, it is considered treated. This disorder was first recognized by

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    Schizophrenia is a mental disease where patients can hear, see, and smell, things that are not actually there. These are referred to as hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations are things that the patient sees and hears that are not present. Delusions are the belief or impression that what the individual is seeing is real. Scientists know that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder and it runs in families. This disease occurs in families and in the general population. In families it occurs in about

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    markers in two Neanderthal genomes. They discovered that the genes linked with neurological development were differently regulated in the Neanderthal brain. Treating schizophrenia Meanwhile, Daily Mail reported that a radical medical investigation, headed by a university professor at Oxford University, suggested treating schizophrenia patients with immunotherapy. Professor Belinda Lennox, a clinical psychiatrist, said that these patients might be suffering actually from immune malfunctions. She based

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    Myth: People who have schizophrenia are likely to be violent and are frequently the suspect criminals of violent crime. Fact: This is another very common and unfounded myth that is distorted by the media. There is an increased risk of violence, especially early in the course of the illness before help has been received, however this risk is low. There is an increased risk of self-harm among people with schizophrenia and this is linked to an increase in the rate of completed suicide. Often, because

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    Positive symptoms for Schizophrenia include delusion, hallucination, and disorganized speech. Other symptom that a person could have was catatonic behavior, negative symptom, and have symptoms for at least 6 symptoms. As mentioned in the paragraph above, John had delusion, hallucination, and negative symptoms. Delusion and hallucination were the ‘positive’ symptoms for Schizophrenia and one of the negative symptoms was anhedonia. During latter part of

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    In our days, two of the most well-known mental disorders are the autism and the schizophrenia. Both autism and schizophrenia are neurodevelopmental disorders and though many people are not aware of it, they have many things in common, but also some difference. In relation to autism and to schizophrenia, we do not have a particular etiology to help us; we perceive that the disarranges are positively heterogeneous, and based upon the involvement of the spirochete, we ought to enliven the likelihood

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    SCHIZOPHRENIA Kennya Castro   Schizophrenia is a mental illness that plagues about 1 out of every 100 Americans. Despite this fact, most of the general public remains ignorant to the basic pathology of the disease and the mechanisms of identifying and treating it. It is considered by some to be a “scary” mental illness and is often ignored, when compared to the other equally serious and caustic ones like Generalized Anxiety Disorder (also referred to as GAD), ADHD, and Chronic Depression. This

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