Schizophrenia Case Study: Residual Thought Disorder versus Emerging DementiaThis chapter describes the challenging differential diagnosis of cognitive impairment in a patient with a severe psychiatric disorder. An older adult with a long history of a schizophrenia-spectrum disorder presented with exacerbation...
(e) schizophrenia is a developmental process of recovery. This study also revealed that patients felt stigmatized and humiliated due to negative attitudes from society (38). Ertugrul and Ulug (37) indicated that severity of symptoms is linked to perception of stigma, meaning that patients with ...
Parental age and risk of schizophrenia: a case-control study. BACKGROUND: Advanced paternal age has been suggested as a possible risk factor for schizophrenia. It is not known whether this is explained by known risk f... M Byrne,E Agerbo,H Ewald,... - 《Arch Gen Psychiatry》 被引量: ...
Self-induced water intoxication in a schizophrenic patient Water intoxication occurred in a 53-year-old woman with chronic simple schizophrenia and poorly controlled diabetes. For several years she had had a compul... J Rae - 《Canadian Medical Association Journal》 被引量: 45发表: 1976年 Involve...
Case Study: Samuel The patient, named “Samuel,” is a 28-year-old, final year medical student from the south-eastern region of Nigeria in sub-Saharan Africa. He was declared missing for 10 days then later seen in a city in south-western Nigeria, a distance of about 634 km from south...
As this study focused on a population at risk for the aforementioned conditions, subjects were excluded if overt CVD was present. Subjects with schizophrenia had an illness duration of at least 5 years, which was obtained with patient report and chart review. These subjects were recruited from ...
This case study provides the pertinent nursing diagnosis, patient outcomes, and nursing interventions for a young male with auditory hallucinations in paranoid schizophrenia. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING. The use of NANDA-I, NOC, and NIC can provide the necessary framework for enhancing and improving the...
Personality Disorders Alison Hetherington Case study Patient Patient –Mrs H –64 years old –Admitted to Heather ward on 23 rd December 2009 HPC HPC –Attempted suicide by taking paracetamol overdose –Feels “dead inside” –Claims to have no feelings for anyone including her family –Weight los...
The goals of therapy for atopic dermatitis include reducing symptoms of pruritis and dermatitis with disease control and prevention of flares. RR is a 22-year-old female patient presenting to the dermatology clinic. She has a past medical history significant for atopic dermatitis (AD) and eczema...
Schizophrenia is sometimes considered one of the most devastating of mental illnesses because its onset is early in a patient's life and its symptoms can be destructive to the patient, the family, and friends. Schizophrenia affects 1 in 100 people at some point during their lives, and while ...