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schizophrenia

[ skit-suh-free-nee-uh, -freen-yuh ]

noun

  1. Psychiatry. a spectrum of mental disorders characterized by emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, hallucinations, or a combination of any of these symptoms. Formerly dementia praecox.
  2. Sometimes Offensive. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.


schizophrenia

/ ˌskɪtsəʊˈfriːnɪə /

noun

  1. any of a group of psychotic disorders characterized by progressive deterioration of the personality, withdrawal from reality, hallucinations, delusions, social apathy, emotional instability, etc See catatonia hebephrenia paranoia
  2. informal.
    behaviour that appears to be motivated by contradictory or conflicting principles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


schizophrenia

/ skĭt′sə-frēnē-ə,skĭt′sə- /

  1. Any of a group of psychiatric disorders characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, hallucinations, and psychotic behavior. Schizophrenia is associated with an imbalance of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.


schizophrenia

  1. A form of psychosis marked by a strong tendency to dissociate oneself from reality. Schizophrenia is often characterized by hallucinations , delusions , and inappropriate reactions to situations. The word schizophrenia is often used informally as well as scientifically to indicate a split personality .


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Other Words From

  • schiz·o·phren·ic [skit-s, uh, -, fren, -ik], adjective noun
  • non·schiz·o·phren·ic adjective
  • un·schiz·o·phren·ic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of schizophrenia1

First recorded in 1910–15; schizo- + -phrenia
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Word History and Origins

Origin of schizophrenia1

C20: from schizo- + Greek phrēn mind + -ia
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Example Sentences

It’s not just schizophrenia that could be spotted with a machine.

A lot of research is carried out on people in this “prodromal” phase, and psychiatrists like Rezaii are using language and other measures of behavior to try to identify which prodromal patients go on to develop full schizophrenia and why.

Rezaii found that language analysis could predict with more than 90% accuracy which patients were likely to develop schizophrenia before any typical symptoms emerged.

The researchers used recordings of conversations made over the last decade or so with two groups of schizophrenia patients at Emory University.

It’s probably a modest increased risk among people with schizophrenia, and in particular when severe mental illness is paired with substance use.

Interestingly, the PLOS Medicine article noted, Otsuka makes the same claim for schizophrenia as it does for bipolar disorder.

Other psychiatrists attempted to treat schizophrenia with carbon dioxide gas and artificially-induced comas.

The Duke researchers screened out those who had problems with hard drugs, alcohol or schizophrenia.

This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience.

Page was diagnosed with acute schizophrenia and found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Schizophrenia was the best answer, of course, and one in which his colleagues would concur.

For instance, incipient schizophrenia, I think she used; potentially dangerous is something which I use.

Neither is specific of schizophrenia, but applies equally to the neuroses and the normal.

The systematic character of resistance holds good, as I believe I have proved, even in schizophrenia.

He said that if this schizophrenia kept on progressing, half the world would be in rehabilitation camps.

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