CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Antipsychotic, Toxoplasma Gondii, Dystonia
16 Nov 2016
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A debilitating and unforgiving disease characterized by severe psychotic breaks. Schizophrenia is a neurological disease that creates confusion between what is real and what is not. With negative symptoms, it seems as if something is missing from the person, such as: Positive symptoms are behaviours that should not normally be present, such as: Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real). Women 25 (some protection from higher levels of estrogen) Early symptoms (warning signs) are often evident in childhood. Gradual (more common in children or young teens) you can see it early you see something going on with a child often see different diagnosis such as. Adhd, which develops into depression and bi polar disorder before the diagnosis becomes schizophrenia gradual diagnosis. Acute psychotic episode (more common in adolescents or adults: schizophrenic episodes. Most individuals with schizophrenia have an increasing split from reality. A small percentage of young children are diagnosed with childhood-onset.
