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    [Title Here‚ up to 12 Words‚ on One to Two Lines] Abstract For years scientist working in this field have attempted to classify types of schizophrenia. According to the DSM-III there were five different types (disorganized‚ catatonic‚ paranoid‚ residual‚ and undifferentiated) however‚ the first three were originally proposed by Kraepelin. Currently today‚ these classifications are still being used in the DSM-V‚ however predicting the outcomes of the disorder

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    was diagnosed as undifferentiated schizophrenia and now his current diagnosis was undifferentiated schizophrenia. Undifferentiated schizophrenia is amental disorder  which is part of the family of disorders broadly known as“schizophrenia.” There are a number of subcategories of schizophrenia including paranoid schizophrenia‚ catatonic schizophrenia‚ disorganized schizophrenia‚ residual schizophrenia‚ and schizoaffective disorder ; undifferentiated schizophrenia is oftendefined as a form in which

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    Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious brain disorder. It is a disease that makes it difficult for a person to tell the difference between real and unreal experience‚ to think logically‚ to have normal emotional responses to others‚ and to behave normally in social situations. Approximately 1% of the population develops schizophrenia during their lifetime‚ and more than 2 million Americans suffer from the illness in a given year. Although schizophrenia affects men and women with equal frequency

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    for schizophrenia to run in families. This suggests that genes and biological factors play a role in the explanation of schizophrenia.. The closer the genetic relationship the more likely the people are to share the disorder. Evidence from family studies by Gottesman showed that when both parent are schizophrenic then there is a 46% chance of the child getting it‚ however‚ if only one parent had it‚ it dropped to 16% and dropped to a further 1% when the sibling of the child had schizophrenia. This

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    Outline and evaluate biological explanations for schizophrenia There are many different explanations for schizophrenia and the biological one has a major influence on the explanation. There are two different approaches; genetics and the dopamine hypothesis. The genetic hypothesis argues that sz runs in families and is inherited through genes. According to the genetic hypothesis‚ the more closely related the family member to the schizophrenic‚ the greater their chance of developing the disorder

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    Schizophrenia Tony Woodall South Georgia Technical College This paper is meant to be written to provide a better understanding of schizophrenia‚ its history and diagnosis and treatment. There are a lot of views concerning this disorder and they are found all over the internet and in different books published about the disorder. It seems that writing one paper could consume a lot of time and patience. I believe that even putting all of what I have found as far as beliefs

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    Schizophrenia A most rare and disturbing mental illness characterized as a disruption in cognition and emotion‚ which affects the way a person‚ analyzes him and society as a whole is known as schizophrenia. Many patients suffering from schizophrenia are emotionally disturbed‚ aggressive‚ and/or destructive to themselves‚ as well as others. In most cases schizophrenic disorders are severe conditions of disordered thoughts and communications‚ inappropriate emotions‚ and extremely bizarre behavior

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    Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that often goes undetected or many times misdiagnosed with other mental health issues. It is one of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses around. Because of its recent discovery in 2009‚ much is not known about this illness. Like many other diseases‚ schizophrenia is hereditary. It is more common than not; nearly one percent to one and a half percent of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with this disease during some point in their

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    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder‚ which severely impacts the way 1% of people worldwide think‚ feel‚ and act. The term comes from the Greek‚ schizo meaning ‘splitting’ and phrenia meaning ‘of the mind’. Therefore schizophrenia literally can be defined as a split mind. This disorder makes it hard for a person to differentiate between real and imagined experiences. It weakens their abilities to think logically‚ express normal emotions‚ and behave properly in social situations. Schizophrenia is a

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    the girls are as follows Nora‚ Iris‚ Myra‚ and Hester (named from oldest to youngest)‚ these names were chosen to resemble the four letters in NIMH‚ the National Institute of Mental Health. Each sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia at different ages and each case of schizophrenia is at different levels of severity. Nora‚ the oldest‚ is sometimes identified as the brightest of the four girls‚ was hospitalized at age 22 and never lived independently for an extended period of time. Iris‚ the second

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