Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that lasts for at least six months and includes at least one month of active phase symptoms. The characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia involved a long range of cognitive and emotional dysfunction, this include perception, inferential thinking, language and communication, behavioral monitoring, affect, fluency, and productivity of thought and speech, hedonic capacity, volition and drive and attention. No single symptom is pathgnomonic to schizophrenia, in other words no single symptom is identified only with schizophrenia. In order to prevent over-diagnosing of schizophrenia, the DSM-IV has a list of diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia. Characteristic symptom, which is criterion A, can be divided into positive symptom (A1 to A4) and negative symptom (A5). The positive symptoms include delusion (A1), which are erroneous beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experience. Persecutory delusions are most common; the person believes he or she is being tormented, followed, tricked or spied on, or ridiculed. There is an also referential delusion whereby the person believes that certain gestures, comments, passages from books, newspapers, song lyrics, or other environmental cues are specifically directed to him or her. The next positive symptom is hallucination schizophrenia, type, symptoms, disorganized, one, symptom, speech, negative, least, catatonic, work, individuals, hallucinations, criterion, residual, positive, person, paranoid, include, delusions, common, behavior, women, month, men, higher, five, essential, disorder, been, alogia, affective, affect, able, united