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- 11: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia During the 1950s, mentally disordered people who were harmful to society and themselves could be treated with medications and were able to return safely to their communities. During the 1980s, the cost of health care ... functions different than the usual human being they can't cope with the problems of life. The schizophrenics drive themselves crazy wanting to kill themselves and others in order to escape from this perplexing world. Schizophrenia is the most common psychoses in the United States affecting around one percent of the United States population. It is characterized by a deep withdrawal from interpersonal relationships and a retreat into a world of ... impairment of intellect, and regression. The severity of psychoses are considered major disorders and involve confusion in all portions of a person's life. Psychosis is seen in a wide range of organic disorders and schizophrenia. These disorders are severe, intense, and disruptive. A person with a psychotic disorder suffers greatly, as do those in his or her immediate environment. Individuals suffering from withdrawal are said to be autistic. That ...
- 12: New Research Indicates That Drug Therapy Is More
- For decades, psychologists have devised many treatment regimes for schizophrenia patients, with varying degrees of success and effectiveness. There have been great obstacles in their efforts, mainly due to the fact that patients of schizophrenia lack insight into their impaired conditions. Often patients refuse treatment of any kind because they do not perceive any mental illness associated with their behaviour. In particular, individuals suffering from paranoid schizophrenia regard therapy as intrusions from hostile outside forces, which reduces compliance on the part of the patient (Davison & Neale,1998). Other problems with treatment programs for schizophrenic s is that they suffer from both ...
- 13: Causes Of Schizophreniz
- Schizophrenia is one of our most important public health problems. It is a common, tragic, and devastating mental illness that typically strikes young people just when they are maturing into adulthood. Once it strikes, morbidity is high (60 percent of patients are receiving disability benefits within the first year after onset), (1) as is mortality (the suicide rate is 10 percent). (2) Despite the fact that people with schizophrenia are all around us (the lifetime prevalence is 1 percent worldwide), (2) this illness is often misunderstood, and people with schizophrenia are stigmatized by both the medical profession and the public. Our understanding of the causation of schizophrenia has increased in the past several decades. Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain that is expressed ...
- 14: Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia
- Compare And Contrast Depression And Schizophrenia Many people take the ability of a young child to recognize faces for granted. However, these people do not realize that the molding of personality begins in infancy. People learn to recognize others by their personalities. Unfortunately, personality disorders are not uncommon. Today, we will compare and contrast the psychological effects of two personality disorders: depression and schizophrenia. First, let's take a brief look at the development of personality. Where does personality come from? Is it inherited? Or is it determined by a person's experiences in life, and his interaction with ... that heredity is not the sole determinant of mental illness. Monozygotic twins are genetically identical, yet it is often the case that one member of the twin pair will show a mental illness, such as schizophrenia or depression, while the other does not. This indicates that factors other than heredity are important contributors to psychopathology. Numerous environmental factors have been studied to determine their relationship to mental illness. For instance, ...
- 15: Phencyclidine: The Dawn of a New Age
- ... 1995). Indeed, this is the perfect drug. Unfortunately, like all good things, this one has a darker side. 15% of patients awake from their slumber with what appeared to be an acute case of paranoid schizophrenia (Peterson; Stillman, 1978). The drug is PCP, and to this day it is the scourge of the underground drug community, and the focal point of intense scientific research. Parke Davis and Company did not know ... which perfectly healthy patients were given PCP and observed (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). Although their research did not provide much useful data, it did begin a revolution in our knowledge of the chemical basis for schizophrenia (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). In 1987, the FDA removed Sernyl (phencyclidine's market name) from the human market and reserved it for use only as an animal tranquilizer, for which it is still used today ... interest in this enigma of a drug, and raised many questions: Why were people addicted to a drug which seldom generated "good trips"? Why (and more importantly, how) was this drug causing episodes of paranoid schizophrenia? A new era in drug research for schizophrenia had been opened. The Excitory Amino Acid Link If one takes a moment to consider what a amazing drug PCP is, then it is easy to ...
- 16: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA? What does the term schizophrenia mean? In its most elementary sense, we might say that schizophrenia is a disease, invented by Eugene Bleeder. Eugene Bleeder was one of the most influential psychiatrists of his time. He is best known ...
- 17: The Dawn of a New Age: PCP
- ... 1995). Indeed, this is the perfect drug. Unfortunately, like all good things, this one has a darker side. 15% of patients awake from their slumber with what appeared to be an acute case of paranoid schizophrenia (Peterson; Stillman, 1978). The drug is PCP, and to this day it is the scourge of the underground drug community, and the focal point of intense scientific research. Parke Davis and Company did not know ... which perfectly healthy patients were given PCP and observed (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). Although their research did not provide much useful data, it did begin a revolution in our knowledge of the chemical basis for schizophrenia (Nintey Fifth Congress, 1978). In 1987, the FDA removed Sernyl (phencyclidine's market name) from the human market and reserved it for use only as an animal tranquilizer, for which it is still used today ... interest in this enigma of a drug, and raised many questions: Why were people addicted to a drug which seldom generated "good trips"? Why (and more importantly, how) was this drug causing episodes of paranoid schizophrenia? A new era in drug research for schizophrenia had been opened. The Excitory Amino Acid Link If one takes a moment to consider what a amazing drug PCP is, then it is easy to ...
- 18: Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness,which is most notable for its mixed thought patterns,and unpredictable disturbances in thinking.About one percent of the population is affected by this disease,and half of the inpatients in U.S. mental hospitals are schizophrenics. Symptoms Symptoms of schizophrenia include delusions,hallucinations,thought disorders,loss of boundaries between self and nonself,inappropriate emotional expressions,lack of motivation,and deterioration of such things as self care,communicating skills,and ambition to work. Delusions-are ...
- 19: Macbeth -Schizophrenia In MacBeth
- In Shakespeares Macbeth, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both show signs of what would today be diagnosed as symptoms of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is defined as "a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling ... There are three major symptoms of the disorder; not being able to distinguish the difference between fantasy and reality, incoherent conversations, and withdrawal physically and emotionally. The most common and most well known symptom of schizophrenia is when people cannot distinguish between what is real and what is not. Schizophrenics often suffer from delusions and hallucinations. A delusion is a false belief or idea and a hallucination is seeing, hearing, ...
- 20: Causes Of Schizophrenia
- Causes of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and related illnesses Illnesses like schizophrenia bring untold misery to sufferers and their families. The suffering is magnified because of the unique stigma attached to these illnesses. Unlike other illnesses, it marks not only afflicted individuals, but also their relatives. For example the concept of the "schizophrenogenic mother" was rife till recently. Such suffering is unnecessary and probably arises from fear bred by ignorance. Our primary aim - search for the causes of psychotic illnesses like schizophrenia - may help dispel these notions. Our research is hampered by the relatively few clues available about the causes. This is not for lack of effort. Literally hundreds of causes have been proposed. They include ...
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