1. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
Escuela Nacional Preparatoria Plantel No 2
“Erasmo Castellanos Quinto”
Team:
 Parra Jaramillo Dania Itzel
 Narváez González Hugo Fernando
Teacher: Pérez Mejía Dulce Cecilia
April 2013
Schizophrenia

2. We decided to talk about schizophrenia because is an interesting but unknown
psychiatric sickness.
This make us reflects the reasons that cause this disease, what symptoms
occur in this kind of people and the treatment.
Schizophrenia is defined as a mental disorder characterized by alterations in
the behavior.
It is observed between 15 to 35 years old and it is similar in bout genus.
This disease almost last all life and is characterized by psychosis and antisocial
vital signs like be apathetic at school or in house; with friends, family, etc
Among other psychiatric disorders, schizophrenia is the most disabling disease,
but the World Health Organization and the international Classification of
Disease, are working together to do an early diagnostic and find a cure.
From twenty one to thirty percent of the patients treated for the first episode did
not have a recurrence of symptoms five years later.
Now I’m going to talk about of some Clinical manifestations…
Schizophrenia is characterized by three essential types of clinical
manifestations:
psychotic and negative symptoms and cognitive impairment
The firsts includes loss of contact with reality, including delusions and
hallucinations, and, cognitive alterations include problems with attention,
concentration and memory, learning and operational functions.
In some circumstances the impact is such that, the patients require
hospitalization.
Also, patients are have a greater risk of alcoholism, substance abuse and are
more prompt to acquire infectious diseases to commit acts of violence and to
suffer posttraumatic stress disorder. The consequences are higher suicide
mortality, increased respiratory risk and cardiovascular morbidity.
The most characteristic neurobiological disorder is enlargement of the
ventricular system, accompanied by reductions of brain volume and gray matter
in different brain regions
The cause of schizophrenia remains unclear. There are genetic theories (the
disease might be hereditary), biological (biochemical imbalance in the brain);
and possible viral infections and immune disorders.
Treatment
The treatment can be pharmacological, psychiatric and family psychoeducation.
Pharmacological treatment like antipsychotics represents the essential

3. treatment in this kind of people with schizophrenia.
It can be Psychiatric treatment, by people who help the patients with this
sickness.
And family psychoeducation treatment, when the patient is in relationship with
his or her family
In conclution Signs of schizophrenia are different for each person. The
symptoms may develop slowly over months or years, or may appear suddenly.
The disease presents in cycles of remission and relapse