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Schizophrenia Treatments and Therapies |
Schizoid personality disorder; Schizotypal personality disorder |
For other uses, see Schizophrenia (disambiguation). Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it ...
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Treatment
... Antipsychotic medications, also known as neuroleptics, are the cornerstone of treatment. Until the 1990s, antipsychotics generally were much more effective in controlling positive symptoms than negati...
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Inside Schizophrenia: Before and After Treatment
... Introduction Early in July 1995, a severely agitated and depressed young woman came into my office. She complained that she was experiencing visual and auditory hallucinations, the voices coming from ...
Source: HealthWorld
Healing Through Homeopathy: Schizophrenia ... Schizophrenia is considered by most physicians to be very difficult to treat. Psychotropic medications may suppress the frank psychotic symptoms, however they create additional problems due to their m...
Source: HealthWorld
Editorial: Two Anecdotes - ... Recently I had lunch with a physician who is interested in orthomolecular medicine. During lunch he reminded me that he had come to see me with his wife eight years earlier. He told me that after my c...
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Endogenous Substances, Brain Dysfunction and Perceptual Changes in Schizophrenic Patients ... Abstract Schizophrenic patients with certain endogenous chemicals were found to have a different brain response and perceptual experiences than schizophrenic patients without these substances. Introdu...
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Resources
- Ask NOAH About: Schizoaffective Disorder Fact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
- Ask NOAH About: Schizophrenia Fact Sheet (New York Online Access to Health, The New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center (NOAH))
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