Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia: Thought, Interrupted
Cognition refers to thinking. Thus, cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are those that are least visible to people around the schizophrenia patient because they are contained in the mind of the...
View ArticleCatatonic Schizophrenia Symptoms: One Disease, Two Faces
The world was introduced to catatonic schizophrenia symptoms when the movie Awakenings, about an encephalitis epidemic, depicted the relationship between a catatonic patient, played by Robert DeNiro,...
View ArticleDefinition of Schizophrenia – What Makes Schizophrenia Different?
Schizophrenia is distinct from other mental illnesses because the affected individual often does not realize that there is a problem – because they truly believe in the delusions that characterize this...
View ArticleParanoid Schizophrenia Treatment: Fine Line Between the Real and the Unreal
Paranoid schizophrenia is the most well-known kind of schizophrenia because of its frequent portrayal on television and in movies such as A Beautiful Mind, which demonstrates that paranoid...
View ArticleUndifferentiated Schizophrenia Symptoms: A Mental Mixed Bag
Psychiatrists are often eager to classify actions and emotions into one or more of the illness categories found in the “bible of psychiatry”, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...
View ArticleUndifferentiated Schizophrenia: One Illness, Many Faces
There are five types of schizophrenia: three that are characterized by distinct symptoms – paranoid, catatonic, and disorganized schizophrenia; and two others defined by other factors. Undifferentiated...
View ArticleChildhood Schizophrenia Symptoms: Brave New Illness
Only in the past decade has childhood schizophrenia been recognized as a legitimate disorder. Schizophrenia history is only 100 years old, and until the 1950s when the first antipsychotic,...
View ArticleTreatment of Schizophrenia: No Longer a Life Sentence
Due to advances in the treatment of schizophrenia, this mental illness is now, in well more than half of cases, no longer a lifelong illness as it was for much of schizophrenia history. Catatonic...
View ArticleCreativity and Brilliance: A Double-Edged Sword When it Comes to Mental...
Well, there just may be some truth to the adage of the “mad scientist” after all. We’ve all known someone who’s kind of, well…out there. Yet we often can’t help but to admire their intelligence or...
View ArticleDisorganized Schizophrenia – How is it Different?
There is a common misconception that mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder conform to a specific course and set of symptoms that is common to all individuals with one of these...
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