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DEFINITION: A disorder characterized by disordered thinking and odd perceptions that cause dysfunction in major activities, sometimes including withdrawal from the world, delusions, and hallucinations...
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2024. 3p.
Schizophrenia is a disabling brain disease that is a chronic, severe, and believed to be genetic. People with schizophrenia often experience auditory hallucinations, such as hearing internal voices that are not heard by others. Paranoia is also common, and those suffering with schizophrenia often believe that other people are reading their minds, controlling their thoughts, or plotting to harm them. These symptoms often leave individuals fearful and withdrawn. Also, their speech and behavior... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2022. 3p.
Schizophrenia is a chronic and often severe mental disorder. Affecting approximately 1 percent of the population, schizophrenia usually develops during adolescence or early adulthood. Patients are diagnosed as having paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated, or residual schizophrenia, according to their positive symptoms (exaggerations of normal functioning) and negative symptoms (deficiencies in normal functioning). The hallmark of the disease is psychosis, wherein the person with... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2022. 3p.
Factors that increase an individual’s risk of schizophrenia include having a parent or sibling with schizophrenia and having an abnormal brain structure. Individuals born during the months of February and March as well as those born in a city have a slightly higher than average rate of developing schizophrenia later in life. Researchers believe this can be due to reduced Vitamin D levels in the mother during pregnancy. Additional risk factors include oxygen deprivation during pregnancy and... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2022. 3p.
By the 1960s, it had been well established that schizophrenia often ran in families. The general population rate for the disorder is about 1 percent. In contrast, it has been estimated that children who have one biological parent with schizophrenia have a 10 to 15 percent chance of developing the disorder. When both biological parents are diagnosed with schizophrenia, the risk rate is thought to be around 40 percent. It is apparent, therefore, that offspring of schizophrenic parents are indeed... więcej
Salem Press Encyclopedia of Health, 2023. 3p.
