Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: Introduction
Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
More detailed information about the symptoms,
causes, and treatments of Schizophrenia is available below.
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
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symptoms of Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: Complications
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Disease Topics Related To Schizophrenia
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Medical Textbooks Online about Schizophrenia
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Wrongly Diagnosed with Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia: Self Assessment Tools
Schizophrenia: Medical Mistakes
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Schizophrenia: Undiagnosed Conditions
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Misdiagnosis and Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia often has misdiagnosed hidden cause: The book "Preventing Misdiagnosis of Women" reports on a
study citing that 83% of people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
actually had brain lesions (i.e. ...read more »
Underactive thryoid may be misdiagnosed as depression: Hypothyroidism, or underactive thyroid, is an endocrine gland disorder that
is more common in women.
It can mimic many diseases, including depression.
The patient often has...read more »
Adrenal gland disorder difficult to correctly diagnose: Addison's disease, a disorder of the adrenal glands,
causes a variety of symptoms, and is often misdiagnosed in...read more »
Cushing's disease can be mistaken for depression: Cushing's disease (or similarly Cushing's syndrome) is a possible misdiagnosis for a person
diagnosed with depression.
It is an endocrine disorder...read more »
Manic-depressive (bipolar) disorder often misdiagnosed: Bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive disorder, is often
misdiagnosed before reaching a correct...read more »
Epilepsy misdiagnosed as schizophrenia: The book "Preventing Misdiagnosis of Women" reports on a case
of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia, but later diagnosed
with a form of epilepsy called " temporal lobe...read more »
Simple hearing loss can be misdiagnosed: Elderly patients can be misdiagnosed owing to
symptoms of paranoia, when the underlying cause is really
simple hearing loss.
Due to...read more »
Various mental health symptoms caused by rare epilepsy: Temporal lobe epilepsy is a less common form
of epilepsy that does not have the typical physical...read more »
Rare seizure-less epilepsy misdiagnosed as various conditions: A complex partial seizure disorder,
such as temporal lobe epilepsy
can be misdiagnosed as various conditions.
Some of the possible misdiagnoses include ...read more »
Lupus is often misdiagnosed as other conditions: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), often simply called "lupus",
is a difficult disease to diagnose...read more »
Rare copper disease insidious and misdiagnosed: Wilson's disease (a form of copper overload) is a rare disorder that
has a slow and insidious onset that can often fail to be diagnosed.
Copper builds up in the liver and in the...read more »
Undiagnosed stroke leads to misdiagnosed aphasia: BBC News UK reported on a man who
had been institutionalized and treated for mental illness
because he suffered from sudden inability to speak.
This...read more »
Dementia may be a drug interaction: A common scenario in aged care is for
a patient to show mental decline to dementia.
Whereas this can, of course, occur due to various medical conditions,...read more »
Mild traumatic brain injury often remains undiagnosed: Although the symptoms
of severe brain injury are hard to miss,
it is less clear for milder injuries, or...read more »
ADHD under-diagnosed in adults: Although the over-diagnoses of ADHD
in children is a well-known controversy, the reverse side related to adults.
Some adults can...read more »
MTBI misdiagnosed as balance problem: When a person has symptoms
such as vertigo or dizziness, a diagnosis of brain injury may go overlooked.
This is particularly true of mild traumatic brain injury ...read more »
Bipolar disorder misdiagosed as various conditions by primary physicians: Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder)
often fails to be diagnosed correctly by primary care physicians.
Many patients with bipolar seek help from...read more »
Eating disorders under-diagnosed in men: The typical patient with
an eating disorder is female.
The result is that men with eating disorders often fail to be...read more »
Depression undiagnosed in teenagers: Serious bouts of depression can be
undiagnosed in teenagers.
The "normal" moodiness of teenagers can cause severe medical depression
to be overlooked.
See misdiagnosis of depression...read more »
Brain pressure condition often misdiagnosed as dementia: A condition
that results from an excessive pressure of CSF within the brain is often misdiagnosed.
It may be misdiagnosed as Parkinson's disease or dementia (such as Alzheimer...read more »
Post-concussive brain injury often misdiagnosed: A study found that soldiers who had
suffered a concussive injury in battle often were misdiagnosed on their return.
A variety of symptoms can occur in post-concussion syndrome and these...read more »
Children with migraine often misdiagnosed: A migraine often fails to be
correctly diagnosed in pediatric patients.
These patients are not the typical migraine sufferers, but migraines can...read more »
Undiagnosed anxiety disorders related to depression: Patients with depression (see symptoms of depression)
may also have undiagnosed ...read more »
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Schizophrenia: Research Doctors & Specialists
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Hospitals & Clinics: Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia: Rare Types
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Causes of Schizophrenia
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Treatments for Schizophrenia
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treatments for Schizophrenia
News Archives for Schizophrenia
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Videos for Schizophrenia
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With the distorted understanding that comes with schizophrenia comes drastic changes in relationships with other people, from close friends to people...
Schizophrenia is a disease that can have devastating effects on a person's ability to function effectively in his or her world. Though there is...
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Prognosis for Schizophrenia
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Reseach about Schizophrenia
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Clinical Trials for Schizophrenia
The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally
and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.
Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Schizophrenia include:
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Clinical Trials for Schizophrenia
Statistics for Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia: Broader Related Topics
Types of Schizophrenia
Curable Types of Schizophrenia
Possibly curable types of Schizophrenia include:
- HIV infection related schizophrenia
- Systemic infection related schizophrenia
- Epilepsy related schizophrenia
- Syphilis related schizophrenia
- more types...»
Rare Types of Schizophrenia:
Rare types of Schizophrenia include:
- HIV infection related schizophrenia
- Systemic infection related schizophrenia
- Epilepsy related schizophrenia
- Syphilis related schizophrenia
- Undifferentiated type schizophrenia
- more types...»
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Definitions of 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)
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)
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