Definition of schizophrenia Schizophrenia

/skɪˌtsʌfɹiˈniʌ/ - [skitsufreeneeu] - schiz•o•phre•ni•a

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What does schizophrenia mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: schizophrenias
schizophrenia - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
		schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox
		psychosis any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted
		borderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia
		catatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitement
		disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions
		paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner

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Wiktionary

schizophrenia (Noun)
A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
schizophrenia (Noun)
Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

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schizophrenia
A group of psychiatric problems that can be categorized as a dopamine dysregulation disorder.

Wikipedia

Schizophrenia is a type of mental illness. Schizophrenia causes problems with behaviour (the way people act), thinking, emotions, motivation and is linked to psychosis. People with schizophrenia are often thought to have 'lost touch with reality'.

The word schizophrenia comes from the Greek words σχίζω (schizo, break) and φρενός (frenos, mind) and means "shattered mind". Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was the first person to separate schizophrenia from other types of mental illness. He called it 'dementia praecox', and it was later renamed 'schizophrenia'.

While people of many ages can have schizophrenia, most often it starts in early adulthood. For many people, the symptoms of schizophrenia will return throughout their life, although some people will have only one or two episodes. The exact cause of schizophrenia is not known, although many things are known to influence the condition. Scientists have discovered that both life experiences and the biology of the brain and body are important. Schizophrenia is partly genetic (passed on within families) and can be triggered by trauma (disturbing experiences).

Schizophrenia is usually treated by the use of drugs which affect the brain, and by training people to understand their thoughts and behaviour with psychotherapy. About one out of every ten people with schizophrenia dies by suicide (killing self).

The famous mathematician John Forbes Nash had schizophrenia. John Forbes Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 1994. He g