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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Schizophrenia
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Imaging Studies, Treatment, Medications, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Follow-Up, Complications, Prognosis, When to Admit, References,
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Topics Discussed: antipsychotic agents; schizophrenia.
Excerpt: | |  Massive disruption of thinking, mood, and overall behavior, as well as poor filtering of stimuli
Schizophrenic disorders subdivided into types by prominent phenomena | | –
Disorganized (hebephrenic): incoherence and incongruous or silly affect –
Catatonic: psychomotor disturbance or either excitement or rigidity –
Paranoid: persecutory or grandiose delusions, and hallucinations –
Undifferentiated: lack of symptoms specific enough to fit other types –
Residual: for persons with a history of clear schizophrenia, but who presently exhibit only milder signs without overt psychosis |
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