The word schizophrenia comes from two Greek words schizo which means split and phrenia, which means mind. This doesn’t mean that a person with the disorder has multiple personalities, but rather parts of the mind seem to be operating independent of each other. The disease affects approximately...
Side Effects of Typical Antipsychotics. These drugs can have adverse side effects related to many organs and systems in the body. These drugs are also known as neuroleptics, a name that comes from the severe neurological side effects that these medications can cause. Side effects include: Extrapy...
From there, a classic diagnosis comes from comprehensively evaluating the individual’s psychiatric history, starting from when they were well through to how their symptoms have progressed over time, and performing a detailed mental status examination of the person in the moment. For instance, are ...
There is currently no physical or lab test that can absolutely diagnose schizophrenia - a psychiatrist usually comes to the diagnosis based on clinical symptoms. What physical testingcando is rule out a lot of other conditions (seizure disorders, metabolic disorders, thyroid disfunction, brain tumor...
“I have been praying much for your continual healing. I believe the Lord has touched you, but sometimes the evidence of healing comes gradually. I was praying very much for you the other afternoon for an hour or so meditating on certain Scriptures. These are the verses that came alive as...
Identify which disorder the following concept/symptoms correspond to: Delusions and hallucinations, suspicious of others. a) paranoid schizophrenia b) catatonic schizophrenia c) major depression d) seasonal affective disorder (SAD) e) antisocial personali If someone comes from a family with a history ...
language from newspaper articles. A second key similarity is that much of the language on Reddit comes from online dialogs. This similarity between Reddit and the structured interviews was imposed by restricting the Reddit corpus to 30,000 individuals who made between 30 and 100 posts in close pr...
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I later explained to my wife that one bullet point I had in my head, for leaving the house, was the word dogs, which meant that I should give the dogs their treats before I leave. We don’t have dogs. This bullet point comes from when my mom and I lived on our own in a ...
Perhaps the strongest evidence for the frontostriatal hypothesis comes from multimodal imaging approaches. Reduced DLPFC NAA shows an inverse relationship with amphetamine-induced striatal dopamine release, measured with [11C]raclopride PET, in patients with schizophrenia but not control subjects (Bertoli...