Schizophrenia

Erin and Sam

What is it? Facts about Schizophrenia! What causes Schizophrenia?
 * A long-term mental disorder of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior.
 * Schizophrenia means "split mind" but NOT split personality.
 *  1% of Americans have this.
 * When diagnosed with disorders sometimes hear voices
 * Most people don't make sense when they talk.
 * People diagnosed with this may sit quietly and still for hours.
 * These people might seem normal, until they talk.[[image:images.jpeg align="right"]]
 * Environment
 * Substance miss use
 * Prenatal

What are the symptoms? What are the treatments? Is it genetic? Is it common in families? > > Our perception of Schizophrenia?
 * Hallucinations
 * When you see, hear, smell, touch with reality becomes hardly noticeable.
 * voices are unrecognizable by their own thoughts.
 * Delusions
 * false beliefs aren't part of their culture and do not change.[[image:schiz-1-and-normal-brain-comp-large.jpg width="240" height="179" align="right"]]
 * Delusions are bizarre.
 * ex: people on TV directing special messages or people are trying to harass, spying, and trying to harm the patient.
 * Movement
 * Agitated body movements with repetition.
 * extreme: catatonia- no response and movement with others.
 * Thought Disorder
 * Trouble organizing thoughts, and hard to understand.
 * The person might speak in the middle of a thought with meaningless words.
 * Lack of speech and motivation.
 * Inhibition of facial features.
 * Mood stabilizers and Anti depressants prescribed by a doctor.
 * Psychotherapy.
 * Hospital, if bad enough.[[image:a_beautiful_mind_2001_450x250_441540.jpg width="265" height="309" align="right"]]
 * Rehabilitation
 * Self help groups.
 * No, it is believed to be cause by a bunch of environmental factors.
 * No, it is very rare, but here is a link to help prevent schizophrenia in families.
 * [|Schizophrenia Prevention]
 * Schizophrenia is one of the most psychology.
 * A lot of our knowledge or information we know is based off of movies we see.
 * Sometimes they are called "the crazy people".

Is it linked to any other disorders?
 * Possibly. Check the link out for more info.
 * [|Genetically linked to other diseases?]

Web Citations:

"Schizophrenia, A Matter of Perception Part 2: Reality, What Reality?" //Serendip//. Serendip, 22 May 2002. Web. 7 Feb. 2012. .

"NIMH · Schizophrenia." //NIMH · Home//. Web. 07 Feb. 2012. .

Book :

Harrison, Paul. //Schizophrenia//. Ed. Daniel R. Weinberger. 3rd ed. Wiley Blackwell. Print.

Movie :

"Beautiful Mind"