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Schizophrenia

Book Summary by: NEIK     

Original Author: holrii
This abstract was translated from Skitsofrenia
Schizophrenia is a serious and complex mental illness that has many long term symptoms.
The illness is often diagnosed in the early adulthood. It has been studied and found out that schizophrenia is somewhat hereditary and that certain surrounding stress factors affect the breaking out of the illness.
It is possible to recover from schizophrenia but risk of the illness breaking out again is constant.
SYMPTOMS
The most common symptoms of schizophrenia are the loss of emotions and the will to speak, delusion, catatonic postures, problems with concentration, hallucinations, depression etc. The symptoms can be divided into three different categories: the advance symptoms, the acute symptoms and the after symptoms. These can be further divided into positive and negative symptoms.
After the ICD-10 -standard schizophrenia can be divided into four types: paranoic, heberphrenic, catatonic and indifferentiated schizophrenia.
TREATMENT
Schizophrenia is mainly treated with antipsychotic drugs which are also called neurolepts. Neurolepts cause many side effects like exhaustion, dizziness, rashes, weight gain and low blood pressure. Also tranquilizers and antidepressants can be used to treat schizophrenia.
Published: September 27, 2005
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