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WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA?
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psychiatric
diagnosis
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mental illness
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social problem
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health problem
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
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hallucinations
delusions
disorganized thinking
and speech
paranoia
social isolation
etc...
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
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delusions
auditory
hallucinations
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alogia
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anhedonia
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asociality
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avolition
thought disorders
CAUSES
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Genetic
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Prenatal
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Social
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Substance abuse
MECHANISMS
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Psychological
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Neural
DIAGNOSIS
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CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS
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SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION
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DURATION
TREATMENT
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MEDICATION
-typical antipsychotics
-atypical
antipsychotics
PSYCHOTHERAPY
INTERESTING FACTS
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John Nash - Mathematician/Nobel Prize
Winner
Albert Einstein's son - Eduard Einstein
Dr. James Watson's son (Dr. Watson is
co-discoverer of DNA and Nobel Prize
winner)
Alan Alda's Mother (Alan Alda is the
famous TV actor from the series MASH)
Andy Goram - Scottish Soccer Player/Goal
Keeper
Lionel Aldridge - Superbowl-winning
Football Player
Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd
Alexander "Skip" Spence and Bob
Mosley - both members of the 1960's rock
group Moby Grape (and Jefferson Airplane
for Skip Spence)
James Beck Gordon (Jim Gordon) James Gordon had been, quite simply, one
of the greatest drummers of his time
Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham
Lincoln (past-President of the United States)
REFERENCES
www.schizophrenia.com
 Laboratory of Neuro imaging, UCLA
 Ljubomir Hotujac i suradnici: “Psihijatrija”,
Medicinska naklada, 2006.
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