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Intoxication
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There are many causes of hallucinations, including:.Being drunk or high, or coming down from such drugs as marijuana, LSD, cocaine or crack, heroin, and alcohol Delirium or dementia Fever, especially in children and the elderly Sensory problem, su...
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Other drugs such as marijuana and PCP have hallucinatory effects. Certain prescription medications may also cause hallucinations.
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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it difficult to tell the difference between real and unreal experiences, to think logically, to have normal emotional responses, and to behave normally in social situations.Schizophrenia is a complex i...
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Schizophrenia is the most chronic and disabling of the severe mental disorders, associated with abnormalities of brain structure and function, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. It is sometimes called a psychotic diso...
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Detailed information on schizophrenia, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
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Schizophrenia is a severe and puzzling disorder of the brain. It dramatically alters the way a person thinks, acts, and feels. It can disrupt each life it touches. And it can cause great emotional pain. If a loved one has schizophrenia, don't lose hope. Right now, there is no cure. But treatment may help ease symptoms. Also, many support services exist for people with schizophrenia and their families.
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The symptoms of schizophrenia are severe and ongoing. They can disrupt lives and cause great suffering. But treatment may help relieve many of these symptoms. Most often, treatment includes both medication and counseling (psychotherapy). It also may involve help with social and life skills.
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Detailed information on schizophrenia, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
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Detailed information on schizophrenia, including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
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Hearing voices is a common symptom of schizophrenia. While some patients find relief with antipsychotic drugs, other techinques under investigation include electrical stimulation, cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, and meditation.
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A look at schizophrenia's roots.Scientists are tracing its roots in the genome and the brain.
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While the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are more obvious, negative symptoms are more troubling to those with the disease, and limit their ability to function normally in the world.
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People with schizophrenia are at greater risk of dying from heart disease. This may be caused by insufficient attention to a patient's physical health, but some antipsychotic medications worsen the risk for diabetes and heart disease.
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Treatment of patients with schizophrenia often falters because patients are unwilling or unable to maintain doctor's appointments and medication schedules. Transitional services such as assertive community treatment can improve the chances of success.
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Schizophrenics, especially women, have a much higher incidence of the metabolic syndrome. This may be due to their medications, which cause weight gain, but a tendency to obesity predates the use of antipsychotic drugs.
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder(or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic patients are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhanced perceptions of sounds, colors...
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Schizophrenia is a collection of related psychiatric disorders of unknown etiology that follow a specific pattern of behavior. Typical behavior seen in schizophrenia includes psychotic episodes in which there is a severe mental disturbance and per...
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder(or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic persons are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhanced perceptions of sounds, colors,...
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder(or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic patients are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhanced perceptions of sounds, colors...
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Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, delusions, hallucinations, emotional disturbance, and withdrawal from reality.Some experts view schizophrenia as a group of related illnesses with similar characteristics. Alt...
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder(or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic patients are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhanced perceptions of sounds, colors...
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Between 1 and 2% of Americans are thought to be afflicted with schizophrenia—at least 2.5 million at any given time, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 new cases every year. Although the name"schizophrenia," coined in 1911 by Swiss psychol...
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Schizophrenia, often misunderstood as split personality, is a chronic mental illness characterized by psychosis, or loss of reality testing. It is a heterogeneous disease in its presentation, course, effect on functioning, response to treatment, a...
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Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder(or group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. The term schizophrenia comes from two Greek words that mean"split mind."
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A Harvard Medical School physician answers your question about early care and treatment of schizophrenia.
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Schizophrenics tend to have a higher incidence of medical problems, possibly because their mental illness prevents them from properly assessing their own health, or their mental health providers are not monitoring their physical condition.
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A British study found that rates of schizophrenia were higher among ethnic minorities and in urban areas, but the findings do not shed any light on the causes of psychosis.
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My husband has been struggling with schizophrenia and anxiety for the last two years. We would like to have children someday, and are a bit concerned about the risks of passing on mental illness to our children. Are there genetic tests available to test for mental illnesses? If not, what would be the risk that our child would develop mental illness?
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Discusses new schizophrenia treatments and their side effect, and how they compare to old treatments.
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Fever is the temporary increase in the body''s temperature, in response to some disease or illness.A child has a fever when their temperature is at or above one of these levels:.100.4°F(38°C) measured in the bottom(rectally) 99.5°F(3...
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The nervous system constantly relays information about the body''s temperature to the thermostat, which in turn activates different physical responses designed to cool or warm the body, depending on the circumstances. These responses include: decre...
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Detailed information on fevers in children A fever is a temperature of 100.4º F and higher.
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A fever is a special cause for concern in infants younger than 3 months of age. Parents and caregivers should be most concerned with changes in eating or sleeping habits, coughing, pain or other marked changes.
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Early morning body temperature may be as low as 97°F, and as high as 99.3°F in the afternoon hours yet still be considered normal. Higher temperatures may be observed in healthy people, but an abnormal elevation(pyrexia) is classified as...
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Fever is defined as an abnormally high body temperature or a regulated rise to a new set point of body temperature. While a body temperature above 100°F(37.8°C) is considered to be a fever by some clinicians, a significant fever is usual...
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A fever is any body temperature elevation over 100°F(37.8°C).A healthy person''s body temperature fluctuates between 97°F(36.1°C) and 100°F(37.8°C), with the average being 98.6°F(37°C). The body maintains sta...
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While the standard for normal body temperature is 98.6°F(37°C), normal body temperatures actually fluctuate within a range of one to two degrees, making it impossible to formulate a precise definition of fever based on a specific tempera...
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One minute you're hot; the next, you're chilled and your teeth chatter. You've got a fever. But look on the bright side: Fever seems to serve a helpful function in the body.
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Buying a thermometer isn't as easy as it used to be. You face an array of choices. But the decision doesn't have to be hard. Like temperature, it's a matter of degrees.
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Most medical professionals agree a fever by itself is not an illness; it is a symptom of an underlying problem. Fevers actually can be a positive sign the body is fighting an infection. However, a fever can cause discomfort for a child.
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A fever is a way for the body to fight infection. But it may also be a sign of a serious illness, especially in children younger than 3 months and children who haven't been immunized. Know when to seek medical care for your child.
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Detailed information on fever, including when to call your physician Fever (also called pyrexia) is defined as body temperature that is higher than normal for each individual. It generally indicates that there is an abnormal process occurring in the body. Exercise, hot weather, and common childhood immunizations can also make body temperature rise.
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Use a digital thermometer to take your child's temperature; never use a glass mercury thermometer. Most children aged three years and older can hold a thermometer under their tongue. If your child is younger than that, or you're having difficulty with the oral method, talk to your doctor about the best way to take his temperature.
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The best way to take an infant's temperature is rectally with a digital thermometer (never use a glass mercury thermometer). Taking the temperature under the arm, or using an ear thermometer, is less exact.
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Detailed information on children and fever, including symptoms and treatment A fever is a temperature of 100.4º F and higher.
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Hyperthermia involves raising the body''s core temperature as a means of eradicating tumors. The treatment simulates fever.
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Hyperthermia is the use of therapeutic heat to treat various cancers on and inside the body.The purpose of hyperthermia is to shrink and hopefully destroy cancer without harming noncancerous cells. It can be used to treat cancer in many areas of t...
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Children can become cranky, fussy or irritable for many reasons. Often it's because they're hungry or just tired. But sometimes irritability can be a sign of illness in children.
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Delirium is sudden severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function that occur with physical or mental illness.Delirium is most often caused by physical or mental illness and is usually temporary and reversible. Many disorders cause delirium, ...
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This patient summary on delirium is adapted from a summary written for health professionals by cancer experts. This and other credible information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, supportive care, and ongoing clinical trials, is available from the National Cancer Institute. Delirium and similar disorders occur in about 15% to 20% of hospitalized cancer patients and in over 75% of terminally ill cancer patients. This brief summary describes delirium experienced by cancer patients, its causes and treatment.
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Delirium is usually temporary, but older people who experience delirium may suffer permanent damage. It is believed that delirium is linked to dementia, but more research must be done before any conclusions can be made.
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Delirium is a state of mental confusion that develops quickly and usually fluctuates in intensity.Delirium is a syndrome, or group of symptoms, caused by a disturbance in the normal functioning of the brain. The delirious patient has a reduced awa...
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Delirium is a medical condition characterized by a vascillating general disorientation, which is accompanied by cognitive impairment, mood shift, self-awareness, and inability to attend(the inability to focus and maintain attention). The change oc...
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Delirium is a transient, abrupt, usually reversible syndrome characterized by a disturbance that impairs consciousness, cognition(ability to think), and perception.The word delirium is derived from the Latin delirare which literally translates"to ...
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This report includes information on recognizing the symptoms of problem drinking, treatment techniques, coping with a loved one's drinking, and overcoming denial.
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Major depression with psychotic features is a condition in which a person experiences depression along with reduced contact with reality(psychosis). This can take the form of false beliefs(delusions) or seeing or hearing something that isn''t reall...
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