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Abstract
A type of schizophrenia characterized by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganized behavior and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behavior. (Dorland, 27th ed)
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7 entry terms
- Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
- Schizophrenia, Disorganized
- Schizophrenia, Hebephrenic
- Disorganized Schizophrenias
- Hebephrenic Schizophrenias
- Schizophrenias, Disorganized
- Schizophrenias, Hebephrenic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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Indexing Annotation
/psychol permitted but consider SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY (IM) if hebephrenic aspect is less relevant (NIM)
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History Note
81; was SCHIZOPHRENIA, HEBEPHRENIC 1972-80 (Prov 1972)
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Previous Indexing
- Schizophrenia (1966-1971)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Disorganized Schizophrenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012562. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012562
- Disorganized Schizophrenia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorganized_schizophrenia
- Disorganized Schizophrenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q267759