Category: Schizophrenia

  • The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in a Beautiful Mind

    Mental health is an important aspect of people’s lives that requires immediate attention and careful consideration. However, the topic of mental illnesses has been a taboo to discuss and portray for many years. Today it becomes more and more acceptable to talk about one’s health freely, especially in art. The movie industry has become the…

  • Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive Explanation

    Schizophrenia is a major therapeutic issue nowadays because it is one of the most problematic mental illnesses known to modern psychiatry. Its most common symptoms include visual and audial hallucinations, delusions, inability to organize the thinking process and express emotional reactions adequately. Moreover, patients with schizophrenia often have social disfunction and cannot behave correctly among…

  • Factors That Caused Schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder among the young males and females. Therefore, for this paper, I will be finding out the various effects of Schizophrenia on the young adults. Among the effects that will be further investigated include victims withdrawing from their peers and relatives, dropping out of school and declining performance at school,…

  • Variables Impacting a Patient With Schizophrenia

    Table of Contents Biological Variables Psychological Variables Social Variables Competence References Biological Variables The mother brought Demetri, her 39-year-old son previously diagnosed with schizophrenia, because of his deteriorating mental well-being. The mother claims that this was due to his discontinuation of the necessary prescribed drugs about a month ago. This stop in his post-hospital treatment…

  • Schizophrenia: Approaches and Behavior

    Modern Approaches Influencing the Development of the Disorder Researchers believe that schizophrenia can take its origins in the malfunctioning of certain neurotransmitters. In particular, one should mention glutamate and dopamine (Hirvonen & Hietala, 2011). In this case, one should not speak about the causal relations between the dysfunctions of neurotransmitters and schizophrenia (Hirvonen & Hietala,…

  • Schizophrenia Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

    Abstract The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders provides a practical diagnostic approach for numerous mental disorders. Schizophrenia is among the disorders that the DSM-5 offers an outlook for. This study evaluates the diagnosis of schizophrenia in a high school teenager, focusing on their background history, including medical conditions to assert the prevalence of…

  • Case Study of Schizophrenia: Symptoms, Misconceptions and Diagnosis

    Introduction Schizophrenia is a severe psychotic disorder with a large variety of subtypes and correlated complications. The current case study describes the appointment with Jasmine Mack, an African American 18-years old college student who has recently experienced several symptoms associated with schizophrenia. Therefore, it is essential to thoroughly examine the negative, positive, and disorganized symptoms…

  • Schizophrenia and Dopamine Level

    Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that affects a person’s cognitive functions. People with this disorder suffer from psychosis, delusions, and apathy (Millard et al., 2021). This illness can manifest due to genetic predisposition; indeed, it is one of the factors that can provoke it. Various psychological traumas, stress, and improper nurturing can cause schizophrenia.…

  • Schizophrenia: Definition and Symptomps

    Table of Contents Introduction Background Epidemiology Diagnosis Treatment Impact and Outcomes References Introduction Schizophrenia is one of the most prolific mental disorders that is characterized by people having an abnormal interpretation of reality. Individuals face some combination and forms of hallucinations, psychosis, delusions, and cognitive impairment which impacts daily functioning and often leads to social…

  • Schizophrenia: Non- and Pharmacological Treatment

    Schizophrenia is a serious and mental illness in which emotional disorders, inappropriate behavior, impaired thinking, and the inability to lead a social life are observed. It usually develops in men aged 18–25 years and in women aged 26–45 years. The given disorder is sometimes inherited, but the main risk factors are experienced events that caused…