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Name two features that schizophrenia is characterized by.
Emotion Blunting Intellectual Deterioration Social Isolation Disorganized Speech and Behaviour Delusions Hallucinations
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Who was the first to classify schizophrenia as a mental illness?
Dr. Emil Kraepelin
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What is the most common symptom of schizophrenia?
Psychosis
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Approximately what percent of people are diagnosed with schizophrenia?
About 1% of the population is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Why is treating schizophrenia difficult?
There are numerous factors such as other medical conditions that must be omitted.
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Approximately how many Canadians are affected by schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia affects hundreds of thousands of Canadians.
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Who replaced the mental illness with the name schizophrenia?
Eugen Bleuler
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What is psychosis?
Psychosis is the experience of loss of contact with reality and usually involves hallucinations and delusions.
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Which parts of the brain does schizophrenia affect?
Cerebral Cortex Limbic System Basal Ganglia
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How long does it take for a person to be diagnosed with schizophrenia?
It often takes a decade.
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What are two abilities that schizophrenia affects in a person?
Schizophrenia affects a person's ability to: Think Clearly Manage Emotions Make Decisions Relate To Others
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What was the original term for schizophrenia?
Dementia Praecox
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What do hallucinations and delusions do?
Hallucinations cause the person to either hear voices inside or outside their head when in reality, they are not actually there and possibly also see things that do not exist. Delusions cause a person to believe ideas that are obviously false such as the belief of people possessing the ability to read or control their minds.
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How is the cerebral cortex affected?
Harder time learning and processing new information and making decisions.
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What is the major complication in the medical treatment of schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia does not require one specific drug to treat the disorder unlike many other illnesses because numerous causes of schizophrenia is still unknown.
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According to research, what is the initial cause of schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is initially caused by difference in brain chemistry as well as environmental causes.
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How many different types of schizophrenia are there?
There are 5 different types of schizophrenia.
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What are the two different types of symptoms?
Negative and Cognitive
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How is the Limbic System affected by schizophrenia?
Loss of control of their emotions more often and sometimes recent memory loss.
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What is the type of medication for treatment called and what does it help do?
The type of medication is called antipsychotic medications and helps relieve the hallucinations and delusions of a schizophrenic.
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What is the definition of schizophrenia?
A severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behaviour, delusions, and hallucinations.
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What are the five different types of schizophrenia?
Disorganized Catatonic Paranoid Residual Undifferentiated
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What do the two different type of symptoms affect?
Negative symptoms affect the reduction of a capacity like motivation. Cognitive symptoms affect the thinking process of an individual.
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What specifically affects the Basal Ganglia and how does it affect schizophrenics?
The antipsychotic medication affects the basal ganglia which may cause movement disorders and Parkinson's disease.
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What is the name of the major movement disorder that is sometimes resulted as a side effect from the antipsychotic medication?
Tardive Dyskinesia.