Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia

• Issac Ko

Issac Ko
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Table of Contents

• 1.Title
• 2.Table of contents
• 3.Schizophrenia
• 4.Symptoms
• 5.Delusions
• 6.Hallucinations
• 7.Negative symptoms
• 8.Cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
• 9.History/ people who got it
• 10.How people deal with it
• 11.Medications
• 12.Ways to control
• 13.Schizophrenia infected brain

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Schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe, and disabling
  brain disease.
• People with schizophrenia often suffer terrifying
  symptoms such as hearing internal voices not
  heard by others, hallucinations, threatened by
  voices.
• schizophrenia can be similar at times to other
  major brain disorders such as bipolar disorder
  (Manic/Depression) or even major depression.

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Symptoms

• delusions
• hallucinations
• grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
• negative symptoms
• cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia
• Disordered Thinking
• Emotional Expression
• Normal Versus Abnormal

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Medications

• Mellaril deals with a mental disorder known as
  schizophrenia, this drug can cause severe loss of
  contact reality, Because Mellaril has been known
  to cause dangerous heartbeat irregularities, it
  is usually prescribed only when at least two
  other medications have failed. Many of the drugs
  prescribed for heartbeat irregularities.
• Antipsychotic medications have been available
  since the mid-50s. They have greatly improved the
  outlook for individual patients. These
  medications reduce the psychotic symptoms of
  schizophrenia and usually allow the patient to
  function more effectively and appropriately.
• newer antipsychotic drugs, such as risperidone,
  Risperdal and olanzapine, Zyprexa, are safer than
  the older drugs or clozapine, and they also may
  be better tolerated.

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Delusions

• False beliefs strongly held in spite of
  invalidating evidence, especially as a symptom of
  mental illness for example,
• Paranoid delusions, or delusions of persecution,
  for example believing that people are "out to
  get" you, or the thought that people are doing
  things when there is no external evidence that
  such things are taking place.
• Delusions of reference - when things in the
  environment seem to be directly related to you
  even though they are not. For example it may seem
  as if people are talking about you or special
  personal messages are being communicated to you
  through the TV, radio.
• Delusions of grandeur - for example when you
  believe that you are very special or have special
  powers or abilities

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Hallucinations

• Hallucinations can take a number of different
  forms
• Visual (seeing things that are not there or that
  other people cannot see),
• Auditory (hearing voices that other people can't
  hear,
• Tactile (feeling things that other people don't
  feel or something touching your skin that isn't
  there.)
• Olfactory (smelling things that other people
  cannot smell, or not smelling the same thing that
  other people do smell)
• Gustatory experiences (tasting things that isn't
  there)

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Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia

• Cognitive symptoms refer to the difficulties with
  concentration and memory. These can include
• disorganized thinking
• slow thinking
• difficulty understanding
• poor concentration
• poor memory
• difficulty expressing thoughts
• difficulty integrating thoughts, feelings and
  behavior

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Negative symptoms

• These are the lack of important abilities.
• lack of emotion - the inability to enjoy
  acitivities as much as before
• Low energy - the person sits around and sleeps
  much more than normal
• lack of interest in life, low motivation
• Affective flattening - a blank, blunted facial
  experession or less lively facial movements or
  physical movements.
• Alogia (difficulty or inability to speak)
• Inappropriate social skills or lack of interest
  or ability to socialize with other people
• Inability to make friends or keep friends, or not
  caring to have friends
• Social isolation - person spends most of the day
  alone or only with close family

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Disordered Thinking

• Schizophrenia often affects a persons ability to
  think straight.
• Thoughts may come and go rapidly the person may
  not be able to concentrate on one thought for
  very long and may be easily distracted, unable to
  focus attention.
• People with schizophrenia may not be able to sort
  out what is relevant and what is not relevant to
  a situation.
• The person may be unable to connect thoughts into
  logical sequences, can make conversation very
  difficult.
• If people cannot make sense of what an individual
  is saying, they are most likely to become
  uncomfortable and tend to leave that person
  alone.

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Ways to control
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How people deal with it
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Schizophrenia infected brains