What is Schizophrenia?
What is Schizophrenia?
- Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
- Schizophrenia: class of psychoses with disturbance mainly of cognition (content and form of thought, perception, sense of self versus external world, volition) and psychomotor function, rather than affect.
Source - Diseases Database
- Schizophrenia: any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Schizophrenia: Introduction
Types of Schizophrenia:
Broader types of Schizophrenia:
How many people get Schizophrenia?
Prevalance of Schizophrenia: Approximately 2.2 million American adults (NIMH); estimated 1.3% adults (USSG); more than 2 million Americans
Prevalance Rate of Schizophrenia: approx 1 in 123 or 0.81% or 2.2 million people in USA [about data]
Prevalance of Schizophrenia:
More than 2 million Americans are affected by schizophrenia. (Source: excerpt from Schizophrenia Research at the NIMH: NIMH)
Who gets Schizophrenia?
Gender Profile for Schizophrenia: Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal
frequency, the disorder often appears earlier in men, usually in the late
teens or early twenties, than in women, who are generally affected in the
twenties to early thirties. (Source: excerpt from Schizophrenia: NIMH)
Gender Profile for Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia often first appears earlier in men, usually in their
late teens or early 20s, than in women, who are generally affected in
their 20s or early 30s.11
(Source: excerpt from The Numbers Count: NIMH)
How serious is Schizophrenia?
Complications of Schizophrenia:
see complications of Schizophrenia
What causes Schizophrenia?
Causes of Schizophrenia: see causes of Schizophrenia
Risk factors for Schizophrenia:
see
risk factors for Schizophrenia
What are the symptoms of Schizophrenia?
Symptoms of Schizophrenia:
see symptoms of Schizophrenia
Complications of Schizophrenia:
see complications of Schizophrenia
Can anyone else get Schizophrenia?
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Schizophrenia.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Schizophrenia.
How is it treated?
Doctors and Medical Specialists for Schizophrenia: General practitioner, Primary care physician, Emergency clinician, Psychiatric crisis consultant, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Neuropharmacologist, Behavioral psychologist, Genetic disease specialist
;
see also doctors and medical specialists for Schizophrenia.
Treatments for Schizophrenia:
see treatments for Schizophrenia
Research for Schizophrenia:
see research for Schizophrenia
Society issues for Schizophrenia
Hospitalization statistics for Schizophrenia:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Schizophrenia:
- Schizophrenia resulted in 17,731 hospitalisations in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW Hospital Morbidity Database 2001-02, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- Schizophrenia accounted for 237,174 patient days in hospitals in Australia 2001-02 (AIHW Hospital Morbidity Database 2001-02, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 0.3% (37,736) of hospital episodes were for schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 88% of hospital consultations for schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 61% of hospital episodes for schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 39% of hospital episodes for schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Schizophrenia:
Organs and body systems related to Schizophrenia include:
Name and Aliases of Schizophrenia
Main name of condition: Schizophrenia
Other names or spellings for Schizophrenia:
Schizophrenic disorder, Schizophrenic psychosis, Dementia praecox
Source - WordNet 2.1
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