Undifferentiated Schizophrenia - Articles
Evidence of Autism in a Psychiatrically Hospitalized Sample
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Kev Leitch
... atients scoring below 100.Results: Twenty-one percent of patients received an SRS score over 100. They were significantly more likely than other patients to be diagnosed with undifferentiated schizophrenia (30% vs. 22%) and have indication in their charts of childhood onset or a “long history” of psychiatric problems (68% vs. 50%), not starting hig ...
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The Genetics of Schizophrenia
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Kate McLaughlin.
... n for mental health consumers and their families, put out by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. It shares a small glimmer of hope in the world of mental health research.Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting 1 in every 100 people at some point during their lives. Genetic factors are thought to account for more than 70% of all cas ...
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CNN on Schizophrenia
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Kate McLaughlin.
... and things that simply don’t exist.Even fewer can relate to perpetual noise coming from within.But these are facts of daily life for the millions of Americans diagnosed with schizophrenia.As the blockbuster film starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx as “The Soloist” opens in theaters across the country, media outlets are offering rare and much ...
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Schizophrenia
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Kate K.
... learned about being modest and patient and persevering. All this served me well when I finally did succumb to sickness, though nothing could prepare me for the onslaught of schizophrenia. In the beginning of the illness the I Ching guided me but soon I was too sick to consult it and set it aside. Only recently have I been well enough to return ...
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Undifferentiated tumors: solving the mystery
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pathologystudent
... of a tumor often has a bearing on prognosis. Well-differentiated tumors generally carry a better prognosis than poorly differentiated tumors. Second, when a tumor is totally undifferentiated (anaplastic), you have to resort to special tests in order to figure out its origin (is it a squamous cell carcinoma, an adenocarcinoma, a lymphoma, a sarcoma ...
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Does Gender Affect Schizophrenia?
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Dr. Romeo V.
Are there important differences in men and women suffering from schizophrenia? A paper published in a recent issue of Psychopharmacology Bulletin (2007:40) seems to suggest that there are. Women with schizophrenia tend to differ from males ...
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Bipolar & Schizophrenia Genetically Linked
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Kate McLaughlin.
D uring the initial months after my daughter Chloe fell ill with bipolar disorder, I was told by one medical practitioner that she thought the illness was schizophrenia. Having adjusted to the harsh reality and seriousness of bipolar disorder (sometimes called manic depression ), I was terrified by the possibility that she could ...
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Schizophrenia and Violence
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Valash
In general, people with schizophrenia are not violent. In fact, they are more likely to withdraw from people and not want to be bothered. However, in the case of violence for the person with schizop ...
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Natural remedy for schizophrenia
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Peter C.
Could megadoses of Vitamin C and niacin help schizophrenia? I read an article of how one psychiatrist successfully treated the son of a frantic couple who suffered from schizophrenia and was sleeping only one hour per da ...
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What Causes Schizophrenia?
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Dr. Romeo V.
... al population. A paper presented in the January 2008 issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry shows the results of a preliminary study examining the most commonly reported causes of schizophrenia in a sample of 127 urban African Americans. The study participants were asked to endorse items from a list of 30 factors, some of which are congruent with curren ...
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