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| Devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior. |
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| Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation. |
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| Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia. |
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| People's irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm. |
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| Latin term meaning premature loss of mind; an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder's frequent appearance during adolescence. |
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| Separation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion, and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia. |
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| Severe psychological disorder category characterized by hallucinations and loss of contact with reality. |
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| More overt symptom, such as a delusion or hallucination, displayed by some people with schizophrenia. |
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| Less outgoing symptom, such as flat affect and or poverty of speech, displayed by some people with schizophrenia. |
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| Inability to initiate or persist in important activities. Also known as apathy. |
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| Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. |
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| Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders. |
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| Apparently emotionless demeanor (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected. |
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| Style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia, involving incoherence and a lack of typical logic patterns. |
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| Emotional displays that are improper for the situation. |
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| Disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture, for extended periods. |
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| paranoid type of schizophrenia |
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| Type of schizophrenia in which symptoms primarily involve delusions and hallucinations; speech and motor and emotional behavior are relatively intact. |
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| disorganized type of schizophrenia |
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| Type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations, and silly or flat affect. |
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| catatonic type of schizophrenia |
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| Type of schizophrenia in which motor disturbances (rigidity, agitation, and odd mannerisms) predominate. |
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| undifferentiated type of schizophrenia |
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| Category for individuals who meet the criteria for schizophrenia but not for one of the defined types. |
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| residual type of schizophrenia |
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| Diagnostic category for people who have experienced at least on episode of schizophrenia and who no longer display its major symptoms but still show some bizarre thoughts or social withdrawal. |
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| schizophreniform disorder |
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| Psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder. |
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| Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia. |
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| Psychotic disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often occurs in reaction to a stressor. |
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| shared psychotic disorder |
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| Psychotic disturbance in which individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person with whom they share a close relationship. Also known as folie a deux. |
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| According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in her offspring. |
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| double bind communication |
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| According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages that was thought to cause schizophrenia. |
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| Hostility, criticism, and over-involvement demonstrated by some families toward a family member with a psychological disorder. This can often contribute to the person's relapse. |
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| Social learning behavior modification system in which individuals earn items they can exchange for desired rewards by displaying appropriate behaviors. |
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