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Schizophrenia Learning Center

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.
Source:ADAM
Date:July 22, 2009
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 di...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
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." It was coined around 1908 by a Swiss doctor name...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
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. The condition affec...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
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, color...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part I
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...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
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, color...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders Part II
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, color...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
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...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, delusions, hallucinations, emotional disturbance, and withdrawal from reality.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
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