2. Terms related to Schizophrenia
• Antipsychotic: A medication for psychosis
• Catatonic- Characterized by marked motor abnormalities
• Chronic: lasting a long time
• Dopamine: An important neurotransmitter (messenger)
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in the brain.
• Dyskinesia: tic or spasm
• Electroconvulsive therapy: Therapy using an electric
current to pass through the brain to produce controlled
convulsions
• Epilepsy (seizure disorder): electrical storm in the brain
3. Terms related to Schizophrenia
• Lithium: Medication for Bi-polar
• Multiple personality disorder: A neurosis
• Personality disorder: chronic use of mechanisms of
coping in an inappropriate, stereotyped, and
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maladaptive manner.
• Prognosis: Future outcome in a diagnosis and chance of
recovery
• Prolactin: A hormone secreted by the pituitary gland
• Psychosis: Thought disorder
4. Terms related to Schizophrenia
• Schizotypal personality disorder: unusual patterns of
speech and behavior also shows signs of social
withdrawal.
• Serotonin: A hormone
• Split personality: Multiple personality disorder.
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• Paranoid schizophrenia: Person has one or more
delusions or many auditory hallucinations
• Disorganized schizophrenia: Person is not suffering from
enough symptoms to be diagnosed, catatonic
schizophrenia.
• Catatonic schizophrenia: Usually has two or more
symptoms of schizophrenia
5. Types of Schizophrenia
• Undifferentiated schizophrenia: characterized by two or more
of the commonly known symptoms of schizophrenia but does
not qualify under paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic
schizophrenia
• Residual schizophrenia: a less severe form of the disorder or
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has only negative symptoms