Psychiatry and Psychology

Schizophrenia

A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

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Abstract

A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, HALLUCINATIONS, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

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  • Dementia Praecox
  • Schizophrenic Disorders
  • Disorder, Schizophrenic
  • Disorders, Schizophrenic
  • Schizophrenias
  • Schizophrenic Disorder

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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, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

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general or unspecified; prefer specifics

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  1. F03w.700w.750w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Schizophrenia. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012559. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012559
  2. Schizophrenia. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
  3. Schizophrenia. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41112