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    Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that causes distorted thinking, perceptions, emotions and behavior. It typically develops between late adolescence and early adulthood. The prevalence of schizophrenia is about 1% worldwide. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior. Treatment involves antipsychotic medications, which can help reduce positive symptoms like delusions, but have less impact on negative symptoms such as social withdrawal. The course of schizophrenia varies between individuals but often involves psychotic episodes that diminish over the long term with treatment and management of symptoms.

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    Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that causes distorted thinking, perceptions, emotions and behavior. It typically develops between late adolescence and early adulthood. The prevalence of schizophrenia is about 1% worldwide. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior. Treatment involves antipsychotic medications, which can help reduce positive symptoms like delusions, but have less impact on negative symptoms such as social withdrawal. The course of schizophrenia varies between individuals but often involves psychotic episodes that diminish over the long term with treatment and management of symptoms.

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    Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that causes distorted thinking, perceptions, emotions and behavior. It typically develops between late adolescence and early adulthood. The prevalence of schizophrenia is about 1% worldwide. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior. Treatment involves antipsychotic medications, which can help reduce positive symptoms like delusions, but have less impact on negative symptoms such as social withdrawal. The course of schizophrenia varies between individuals but often involves psychotic episodes that diminish over the long term with treatment and management of symptoms.

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    SCHIZOPHRENIA

    SCHIZOPHRENIA is a syndrome or disease process of the brain


    causing distorted and bizarre thoughts, perceptions, emotions,
    movements, and behavior.

    It is usually diagnosed in late adolescence and early adulthood (15 to 25


    years for men, 25 to 35 years for women).

    Prevalence is 1% of total population, or 3 million in U.S.; same


    prevalence throughout world.
    HARD OR POSITIVE SOFT OR NEGATIVE
    SYMPTOMS SYMPTOMS
    are amenable to antipsychotic medication and persist over time and are somewhat amenable
    include: to atypical antipsychotics only. They include:

    Delusions Flat affect


    Hallucinations Lack of volition
    Grossly disorganized thinking, speech, and Social withdrawal or discomfort
    behavior. Apathy
    Alogia
    Types of Schizophrenia
    Paranoid Disorganized Catatonic Undifferentiate Residual
    d
    persecutory or grossly marked mixed at least one
    grandiose inappropriate or psychomotor schizophrenic previous psychotic
    delusions and flat affect, disturbance, symptoms along episode but not
    hallucinations; incoherence, motionless or with disturbances currently; social
    sometimes loose associations, excessive motor of thought, affect, withdrawal, flat
    excessive extremely activity, behavior affect, loose
    religiosity; disorganized extreme associations
    hostile and behavior negativism,
    aggressive mutism,
    behavior peculiarities of
    voluntary
    movement
    (echolalia,
    echopraxia)
    Varies among clients
    Most clients experience a slow and gradual onset of symptoms.
    Younger age of onset associated with poorer outcomes.

    In first years after diagnosis, client may have relatively symptom-


    free periods between psychotic episode or fairly continuous
    psychosis with some shift in severity of symptoms.

    Over the long term, psychotic symptoms diminish for most clients
    and are managed more easily.
    Many years of dysfunction are rarely overcome.
    Focus on client’s strengths and time out of the hospital, not just on
    symptoms and need for acute care.
    No nurse has all the answers

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