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  1. Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.
  2. A situation or condition that results from the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic qualities, identities, or activities: the national schizophrenia that results from carrying out an unpopular war.

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Any of a group of severe mental disorders that have in common symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, blunted emotions, disorganized thinking, and withdrawal from reality. Five main types are recognized: the paranoid, characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur combined with unrealistic, illogical thinking and frequent auditory hallucinations; the disorganized (hebephrenic), characterized by disordered speech and behaviour and shallow or inappropriate emotional responses; the catatonic, characterized by motor inflexibility or stupor along with mutism, echolalia, or other speech abnormalities; the simple or undifferentiated type, which conforms to basic definitions of schizophrenia but does not exhibit particular behaviours in the aforementioned types; and the residual type, which is a chronic stage indicating advancement toward later-stage schizophrenia. Schizophrenia seems to occur in 0.5 – 1% of the general population, and more than half of those so diagnosed will eventually recover. There is strong evidence that genetic inheritance plays a role, but no single cause of schizophrenia has been identified. Stressful life experiences may help trigger its onset. Treatment consists of drug therapy and counseling.

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A brain disorder that is characterized by bizarre mental experiences such as hallucinations and severe decrements in social, cognitive, and occupational functioning. Patients with schizophrenia demonstrate a series of biological differences when compared to other groups of psychiatric patients. However, no biological marker has yet been found to conclusively indicate the presence of schizophrenia. A diagnosis is made on the basis of a cluster of symptoms reported by the patient, and of signs identified by the clinician.

People with schizophrenia may report perceptual experiences in the absence of a perceptual stimulus. Most common are auditory hallucinations, often reported in the form of words spoken to the person with schizophrenia. The language is often derogatory, and it can be tremendously frightening. See also Hallucination.

People with schizophrenia often maintain beliefs that are not held by the overwhelming majority of the general population. To be considered delusions, the beliefs must be unshakable. In many cases, these beliefs may be bizarre and stem from odd experiences. In some instances, the delusions have an element of suspicion to them, such as the belief that others are planning to cause the person harm. The delusions may or may not be related to hallucinatory experiences.

Many schizophrenics suffer from social isolation, lack of motivation, lack of energy, slow or delayed speech, and diminished emotional expression, often referred to as blunted affect. They may manifest an odd outward appearance due to the severity of their disorganization. This presentation may include speech that does not follow logically or sensibly, at times to the point of being incoherent. Facial expression may be odd or inappropriate, such as laughing for no reason. In some cases, people with schizophrenia may move in a strange and awkward manner. The extreme aspect of this behavior, referred to as catatonia, has become very rare since pharmacological treatments have become available.

Perhaps the most devastating feature of schizophrenia is the cognitive impairment found in most people with the disorder. On average, such people perform in the lowest 2–10% of the general population on tests of attention, memory, abstraction, motor skills, and language abilities.

The onset of schizophrenia generally occurs in people in the late teens to early twenties. However, schizophrenia is possible throughout the life span. While the onset of symptoms is abrupt in some people, others experience a more insidious process, including extreme social withdrawal, reduced motivation, mood changes, and cognitive and functional decline. The course of schizophrenia is normally characterized by episodes of relative remission in which only subtle symptoms remain, and episodes of exacerbation of symptoms, which are often caused by failure to continue treatment.

It is likely that there are various forms of schizophrenia, perhaps with different causes. Although schizophrenia appears to be inherited in some cases, the influence of genes is far from complete. Many arguments have been put forth regarding environmental factors that could cause schizophrenia. Very few of these theories are consistently supported.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has revealed that people with schizophrenia often have changes in the structure of their brain such as enlargement of the cerebral ventricles (the fluid-filled spaces in the brain close to the midline). Various brain regions have been found to be smaller in patients with schizophrenia, including the frontal cortex, temporal lobes, and hippocampi. In addition, studies of patients with schizophrenia have found patterns of abnormal activation of the brain while performing tests of memory and problem solving. See also Brain; Medical imaging.

Either a pharmacological or behavioral approach may be used in treating schizophrenia. A variety of antipsychotic medications have been used, and research continues into how to minimize the side effects which are often associated with such drugs. There are several targets for behavioral treatments in schizophrenia. Structured training programs have attempted to teach patients how to function more effectively in social, occupational, and independent living domains. Family interventions have been designed to provide a supportive environment for patients, and have been demonstrated to reduce risk of relapse. Another behavioral treatment area is teaching patients how to cope with hallucinations and delusions. Most patients with schizophrenia do not spontaneously recognize their symptoms as unusual and their experiences as unreal. Cognitive-behavioral treatments have been employed to help patients realize the nature of their symptoms and to develop plans for coping with them. See also Psychopharmacology; Psychotherapy.


Definition

Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by disordered thinking, delusions, hallucinations, emotional disturbance, and withdrawal from reality.

Description

Some experts view schizophrenia as a group of related illnesses with similar characteristics. Although the term, coined in 1911 by Swiss psychologist Eugene Bleuler (1857–1939), is associated with the idea of a "split" mind, the disorder is different from a "split personality" (dissociative identity disorder), with which it is frequently confused. In the United States, schizophrenics occupy more hospital beds than patients suffering from cancer, heart disease, or diabetes. At any given time, they account for up to half the beds in long-term care facilities and 40 percent of the treatment days.

Demographics

The incidence of childhood schizophrenia is thought to be one in 10,000 births. In comparison, the incidence among adolescents and adults is approximately one in 100. The condition occurs with equal frequency in males and females (although the onset of symptoms is usually earlier in males). At least 2.5 million Americans are thought to be afflicted with schizophrenia, with an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 new cases every year. Schizophrenia is commonly thought to disproportionately affect people in the lowest socioeconomic groups, although some people claim that socially disadvantaged persons with schizophrenia are only more visible than their more privileged counterparts, not more numerous.

Causes and Symptoms

While the exact cause of schizophrenia is not known, it is believed to be caused by a combination of physiological and environmental factors. Studies have shown that there is clearly a hereditary component to the disorder. Family members of schizophrenics are ten times more prone to schizophrenia than the general population, and identical twins of schizophrenics have a 46 percent likelihood of having the illness themselves. Relatives of schizophrenics also have a higher incidence of other milder psychological disorders with some of the same symptoms as schizophrenia, such as suspicion, communication problems, and eccentric behavior.

In the years following World War II (1939–45), many doctors blamed schizophrenia on bad parenting. In the latter twentieth century, however, advanced neurological research strengthened the case for a physiological basis for the disease. It has been discovered that the brains of schizophrenics have certain features in common, including smaller volume, reduced blood flow to certain areas, and enlargement of the ventricles (cavities filled with fluid that are found at the brain's center). Much attention has focused on the connection between schizophrenia and neurotransmitters, the chemicals that transmit nerve impulses within the brain. One such chemical, dopamine, has been found to play an especially important role in the disease. Additional research has concentrated on how and when the brain abnormalities that characterize the disorder develop. Some are believed to originate prenatally for a variety of reasons, such as trauma, viral infections, malnutrition during pregnancy, or Rh sensitivity (a reaction caused when the mother lacks a certain blood protein called Rh that the baby has). Environmental factors associated with schizophrenia include birth complications, viral infections during infancy, and head injuries in childhood. While the notion of child-rearing practices causing schizophrenia has been largely discredited, there is evidence that certain family dynamics do contribute to the likelihood of relapse in persons who already have shown symptoms of the disease.

Researchers have found correlations between childhood behavior and the onset of schizophrenia in adulthood. A 30-year longitudinal research project studied over 4,000 people born within a single week in 1946 in order to document any unusual developmental patterns observed in those children who later became schizophrenic. It was found that a disproportionate number of them learned to sit, stand, and walk late. They were also twice as likely as their peers to have speech disorders at the age of six and to have played alone when they were young. Home movies have enabled other researchers to collect information about the childhood characteristics of adult schizophrenics. One study found that the routine physical movements of these children tended to be slightly abnormal in ways that most parents would not suspect were associated with a major mental illness and that the children also tended to show fear and anger to an unusual degree.

The initial symptoms of schizophrenia usually occur between the ages of 16 and 30, with some variation depending on the type. Disorganized schizophrenia tends to begin early, usually in adolescence or young adulthood, while paranoid schizophrenia tends to start later, usually after the age of 25 or 30. The onset of schizophrenia before the age of 13 is rare and is associated with more serious symptoms. The onset of acute symptoms is referred to as the first psychotic break or break from reality. In general, the earlier the onset of symptoms, the more severe the illness is. Before the disease becomes full-blown, schizophrenics may go through a period called the prodromal stage, lasting about a year, when they experience behavioral changes that precede and are less dramatic than those of the acute stage. These may include social withdrawal, trouble concentrating or sleeping, neglect of personal grooming and hygiene, and eccentric behavior.

The prodromal stage is followed by the acute phase of the disease, which usually requires medical intervention. During this stage, three-fourths of schizophrenics experience delusions, illogical and bizarre beliefs that are held despite objections. An example of a delusion is the belief that the afflicted person is under the control of a sinister force located in the sewer system that dictates his every move and thought. Hallucinations are another common symptom of acute schizophrenia. These may be auditory (hearing voices) or tactile (feeling as though worms are crawling over one's skin). The acute phase of schizophrenia is also characterized by incoherent thinking, rambling or discontinuous speech, use of nonsense words, and odd physical behavior, including grimacing, pacing, and unusual postures. Persons in the grip of acute schizophrenia may also become violent, although often this violence is directed at themselves: it is estimated that 15 to 20 percent of schizophrenics commit suicide out of despair over their condition or because the voices they hear "tell" them to do so, and up to 35 percent attempt to take their own lives or seriously consider doing so. In addition, about 25 to 50 percent of people with schizophrenia abuse drugs or alcohol. As the positive symptoms of the acute phase subside, they may give way to what is called residual schizophrenia. Symptoms include flat or inappropriate emotions, an inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of motivation, reduced attention span, lack of interest in one's surroundings, and social withdrawal.

When to Call the Doctor

Parents should contact a healthcare professional if their child begins to have auditory or visual hallucinations, has a sudden change in behavior, shows signs of suicide ideation, or exhibits other symptoms of schizophrenia.

Diagnosis

Schizophrenia is generally divided into four types. The most prevalent, found in some 40 percent of affected persons, is paranoid schizophrenia, characterized by delusions and hallucinations centering on persecution, and by feelings of jealousy and grandiosity. Other possible symptoms include argumentativeness, anger, and violence. Catatonic schizophrenia is known primarily for its catatonic state, in which persons retain fixed and sometimes bizarre positions for extended periods of time without moving or speaking. Catatonic schizophrenics may also experience periods of restless movement. In disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia, the patient is incoherent, with flat or inappropriate emotions, disorganized behavior, and bizarre, stereotyped movements and grimaces. Catatonic and disorganized schizophrenia affect far fewer people than paranoid schizophrenia. Most schizophrenics not diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenics fall into the large category of undifferentiated schizophrenia (the fourth type), which consists of variations of the disorder that do not correspond to the criteria of the other three types. Generally, symptoms of any type of schizophrenia must be present for six months before a diagnosis can be made.

Childhood schizophrenia has been known to appear as early as five years of age. Occurring primarily in males, it is characterized by the same symptoms as adult schizophrenia. Diagnosis of schizophrenia in children can be difficult because delusions and hallucinations may be mistaken for childhood fantasies. Other signs of schizophrenia in children include moodiness, problems relating to others, attention difficulties, and difficulty dealing with change. In many cases, children are improperly diagnosed with the disease; one study found as many as 95 percent of children initially diagnosed with childhood-onset schizophrenia did not meet the diagnostic criteria.

It is important for schizophrenia to be diagnosed as early as possible. The longer the symptoms last, the less well afflicted individuals respond to treatment.

Treatment

Even when treated, schizophrenia interferes with normal development in children and adolescents and makes new learning difficult.

Schizophrenia has historically been very difficult to treat, usually requiring hospitalization during its acute stage. In the late 1900s, antipsychotic drugs became the most important component of treatment. These can control delusions and hallucinations, improve thought coherence, and, if taken on a long-term maintenance basis, prevent relapses. However, antipsychotic drugs do not work for all schizophrenics, and their use has been complicated by side effects, such as akathisia (motor restlessness), dystonia (rigidity of the neck muscles), and tardive dyskinesia (uncontrollable repeated movements of the tongue and the muscles of the face and neck). In addition, many schizophrenics resist taking medication, some because of the side effects, others because they may feel better and mistakenly decide they do not need the drugs anymore, or because being dependent on medication in order to function makes them feel bad about themselves. The tendency of schizophrenics to discontinue medication is very harmful. Each time a schizophrenic goes off medication, the symptoms of the disease return with greater severity, and the effectiveness of the drugs is reduced.

Low doses of antipsychotic medication have been used successfully with children and adolescents, especially when administered shortly after the onset of symptoms. Their rate of effectiveness in children between the ages of five and 12 has been found to be as high as 80 percent. Until about 1990, the drugs most often prescribed for schizophrenia were neuroleptics such as Haldol, Prolixin, Thorazine, and Mellaril. A major breakthrough in the treatment of schizophrenia occurred in 1990 with the introduction of the drug clozapine to the U.S. market. Clozapine, which affects the neurotransmitters in the brain (specifically serotonin and dopamine), has been dramatically successful in relieving symptoms of schizophrenia, especially in patients in whom other medications have not been effective. However, even clozapine does not work for all patients. In addition, about 1 percent of those who take it develop agranulocytosis, a potentially fatal blood disease, within the first year of use, and all patients on clozapine must be monitored regularly for this side effect. (Clozapine was first developed in the mid twentieth century but could not be introduced until it became possible to screen for this disorder.) The screening itself is expensive, creating another problem for those using the drug. Risperidone, a subsequent and safer medication that offers benefits similar to those of clozapine, was introduced in 1994 and is as of the early 2000s the most frequently prescribed antipsychotic medication in the United States. Olanzapine, another in the subsequent generation of schizophrenia drugs, received FDA approval in the fall of 1996, and more medications are under development. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT, also called electric shock treatments) has been utilized to relieve symptoms of catatonia and depression in schizophrenics, especially in cases where medication is not effective.

Although medication is an important part of treatment, psychotherapy can also play an important role in helping schizophrenics manage anxiety and deal with interpersonal relationships, and treatment for the disorder usually consists of a combination of medication, therapy, and various types of rehabilitation. Family therapy has worked well for many patients, educating both patients and their families about the nature of schizophrenia and helping them in their cooperative effort to cope with the disorder.

Alternative Treatment

Some of the alternative treatments that have been used with varying success to treat children with schizophrenia include biofeedback, acupressure, chiropractic work, massage, and herbal drops.

Nutritional Concerns

Some families have reported a benefit to making adjustments to or supplementing the diet of a child with schizophrenia, including reducing the amount of processed sugar consumed and supplementing with vitamins and minerals such as copper, zinc, folic acid, etc.

Prognosis

With the aid of antipsychotic medication to control delusions and hallucinations, about 70 percent of schizophrenics are able to function in society. Over the long term, about one-third of patients experience recovery or remission. Children afflicted with schizophrenia have a poorer prognosis than that of adults.

Prevention

There is no proven way to prevent onset of schizophrenia. Researchers have investigated the possibility of treating schizophrenia during the prodromal stage or even before symptoms start (such as when the likelihood of hereditary transmission is high). Other areas of research include the links between schizophrenia and family stress, drug use, and exposure to certain infectious agents.

Parental Concerns

Parents play a key role in the everyday treatment and management of schizophrenia. The affected child should be closely monitored to ensure he or she is taking all prescribed medications. Working with the child's school teachers to formulate a day-to-day schedule can help maintain consistency for the child and address specific developmental delays. Parents should be educated on the signs of relapse and of adverse reactions to the medication, and encourage children in remission to self-report any possible signs of relapse.

Resources

Books

Dalton, Richard, Marc A. Forman, and Neil W. Boris. "Childhood Schizophrenia." In Nelson Textbook ofPediatrics, 17th ed. Edited by Richard E Behrman, Robert M. Kliegman, and Hal B. Jenson. Philadelphia: Saunders, 2004.

Moore, David P., and James W. Jefferson, eds. "Schizophrenia." In Handbook of Medical Psychiatry, 2nd ed. New York: Mosby, 2004.

Periodicals

Jarbin, Hakan, et al. "Adult Outcome of Social Function in Adolescent-Onset Schizophrenia and Affective Psychosis." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 42, no.2 (February 2003): 176–83.

McClellan, Jon, et al. "Symptom Factors in early-Onset Psychotic Disorders." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41, no. 7 (July 2002): 791–8.

Schaeffer, John L., and Randal G. Ross. "Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia: Premorbid and Prodromal Diagnostic and Treatment Histories." Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 41, no. 5 (May 2002): 538–45.

Organizations

National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. 60 Cutter Mill Rd., Suite 404, Great Neck, NY 11021. Web site: www.narsad.org.

National Schizophrenia Foundation. 403 Seymour Ave., Suite 202, Lansing, MI 48933. Web site: www.nsfoundation.org.

Web Sites

Dunn, David W. "Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses." eMedicine, June 17, 2004. Available online at (accessed January 17, 2005).

[Article by: Stephanie Dionne Sherk]



Schizophrenia, often misunderstood as split personality, is a chronic mental illness characterized by psychosis, or loss of reality testing. It is a heterogeneous disease in its presentation, course, effect on functioning, response to treatment, and possibly even etiology. In 1990, the total cost of schizophrenia in the United States, including mental health and societal costs, was estimated at $32.5 billion. The risk of suicide in schizophrenia is at least 10 percent, which is twenty times the risk in the general population. Over 70 percent of persons with schizophrenia are unemployed. An estimated 30 to 50 percent of the homeless population has schizophrenia. As one of the most chronically disabling mental illnesses, it can be devastating for those afflicted and their families, and it has a significant impact on public mental health systems.

Schizophrenia presents as a syndrome. The symptoms are organized into three major categories: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive impairment. Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and bizarre behaviors. Hallucinations are most commonly auditory, usually experienced as voices talking to or about the person. Delusions are false beliefs and tend to be paranoid, grandiose, or bizarre in nature. Disorganized speech is presumed to be a manifestation of an underlying thought disorder. The flow of ideas is illogical and may range from being mildly confusing to incomprehensible. Words may be strung together based on sound rather than meaning, or entirely new words may be created. Bizarre behavior may be observed as repetitive movements, unusual mannerisms, odd ways of dressing, and disregard for social norms.

Negative symptoms include flat affect (facial expression), avolition, and apathy. A flat affect is one revealing little emotion or expression. Generally, persons with schizophrenia seem emotionally disconnected and tend to be socially withdrawn. Avolition and apathy are characterized by a lack of motivation and poor grooming and hygiene. In addition to the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, cognitive impairment with deficits in attention span, memory, and information processing is often present. Persons with schizophrenia experience varying constellations and severities of symptoms resulting in a range of impaired functioning.

The prevalence of schizophrenia is approximately 0.85 percent of the population worldwide and is fairly consistent across race and geographical regions. Men and women are equally affected. Average age of onset in men is 15 to 25 years of age, while in women it is 25 to 35 years of age. No clear risk factors for developing schizophrenia have been identified except a family history of the disease. The disease course is marked by relapses and remissions. Although some persons with schizophrenia regain their premorbid functioning, most experience chronic debilitating symptoms. Acute onset, female gender, being married, and good premorbid adjustment are factors associated with a better prognosis.

The etiology of schizophrenia is poorly understood. Prevailing theories propose a biological vulnerability to developing schizophrenia with both environmental and psychological factors contributing. The biological vulnerability is likely genetic and is suggested by twin studies, adoption studies, and an increased rate of schizophrenia in relatives of persons with the disorder. Immunological abnormalities, viral infections, and hypoxia have all been hypothesized as mechanisms of environmental assaults on the developing brain. Pathological theories focus on abnormalities in the neural circuitry and in neurotransmitters, particularly dopamine. The role of dopamine in schizophrenia is supported by studies showing that increased dopamine activity can induce psychotic symptoms, while blocking dopamine receptors can decrease psychosis.

Schizophrenia is a chronic illness that is managed, not cured. Treatment is most effective when elements of pharmacotherapy, supportive therapy, and psychosocial rehabilitation are integrated. Pharmacotherapy with antipsychotic medications, also called neuroleptics, is the mainstay of treatment and is crucial for diminishing the acute symptoms of schizophrenia as well as maintaining remission. The presumed mechanism of action of these medications is blockade of dopamine receptors in neural tissue. Due to the severity of symptoms and the functional impairments they produce, psychosocial supports and rehabilitation are important for individuals with schizophrenia and their families. Individual supportive therapy and group therapy can promote the development of strategies to manage psychotic symptoms and to manage stress, which can contribute to relapses. Rehabilitation targets the improvement of vocational and social skills. Case management facilitates access to social services, entitlements, housing, and medical care. Up to 25 percent of those with schizophrenia are too impaired to care for themselves in the community and require residential treatment programs or long-term hospitalization. Even when a person is able to live in the community, brief hospitalizations are often necessary to treat exacerbations of psychosis.

(SEE ALSO: Community Metal Health Centers)

Bibliography

Eisendrath, S. J., and Lichtmacher, J. E. (1999). "Psychiatric Disorders." In Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 1999, eds. L. M. Tierney, S. J. Mcphee, and M. A. Papadakis. Stamford, CT: Appleton and Lange.

Kaplan, H. I., and Sadock, B. J. (1998). Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry: Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry, 6th edition. Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins.

— STUART J. EISENDRATH; KARA POWERS



Columbia Encyclopedia:

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schizophrenia (skĭt'səfrē'nēə), group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "split personality." However, the condition should not be confused with multiple personality, a disorder in which the individual has two or more distinct personalities that dominate at different times.

In 1896, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped what were previously considered unrelated mental diseases under the term dementia praecox. It was not until 1908, however, that an influential essay by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Kraepelin's theory that the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable. Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox, emphasizing the dissociative phenomena in the mind and avoiding the implications of early onset and progressive brain deterioration.

Schizophrenic disorders generally begin in the late teenage years or early adulthood and tend to occur in withdrawn, seclusive individuals. The lifetime prevalence worldwide has been estimated to be just under 1%, and the disorder affects 1.5 to 2 million people in the United States alone. Symptoms include disturbances of thought, both in form and content (see delusion), and disturbances of perception, most commonly appearing as visual or aural hallucinations.

There are five major types of schizophrenia listed by the American Psychiatric Association in its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The most severe are disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia, characterized by hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate laughing and crying, incoherent speech, and infantile behavior; and catatonic schizophrenia, characterized by physical rigidity or hyperactivity. Paranoid schizophrenics can often function relatively normally, although they may be disturbed by persecutory delusions and hallucinations, and they tend to exhibit argumentative behavior. The presence of a combination of symptoms from other types is classified as undifferentiated schizophrenia. Residual schizophrenia is constituted by minor symptoms, which occur as an active episode diminishes.

The cause of schizophrenia is unknown. Genetic factors appear to be involved in producing susceptibility to the condition, with studies among identical twins showing a 30%-50% concordance rate, a figure that has been confirmed by the results of adoption studies. Biochemical research suggests that high levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine, or excessive numbers of receptors for dopamine, may be at the root of schizophrenia. Medical imaging studies have revealed various physical and physiological anomalies in some patients. Other research has focused on mistiming of neural responses to stimuli in the brain. Many researchers maintain that a combination of influences, including such environmental factors as viral illness or malnutrition in the patient's mother during pregnancy, may lead to schizophrenia,

Antipsychotic drugs (see psychopharmacology), sometimes in conjunction with psychotherapy, have greatly improved the treatment of schizophrenia. Hospitalization is sometimes needed initially to provide basic personal needs (safety, food, and hygiene) while acute symptoms are treated. Most patients return to the community with varying degrees of independence and with good prospects for long-term remission of symptoms.

Bibliography

See R. Miller and S. Mason, Diagnosis: Schizophrenia (2002); studies by I. I. Gottesman (1991) and H. Häfner and W. F. Gattaz, ed. (1991).


For psychoanalysis, as for medical research and the entire field of mental health, schizophrenia is a complex, baffling, and frustrating disorder. It is not particularly rare, affecting about 1 percent of the population; its distribution is worldwide. A century after Emil Kraepelin created the diagnosis of dementia praecox and its extensive symptomology—renamed schizophrenia by Eugen Bleuler—it remains poorly understood. In spite of revolutionary advances in biology and neuroscience, no treatment or combination of therapies offers a reliable cure.

Like all the psychotic disorders, schizophrenia was thought from the start to have an organic basis, but Kraepelin was forced describe it as a "functional disorder." Early age of onset and absence of brain lesions such as might be found in epilepsy or tertiary syphilis, for example, encouraged early analysts to attempt treatment, especially in light of the limitations of other therapeutic modalities. It became plausible to suggest, at least tentatively, that schizophrenia was a psychological disorder that originated, like neurotic conflicts, in infancy and early childhood. The fact that some small but significant percentage of patients experienced full or partial recovery made it a target for therapies of all kinds, including psychoanalysis.

Although Freud himself was skeptical about prospects for successfully treating schizophrenia, the disorder was central to the activity of many early analysts, who often were associated with hospitals for the insane. Karl Abraham's first letters to Freud concerned psychosis; like Carl Jung, he worked at the Burgholzi Central Asylum and University Clinic in Zurich, which Bleuler directed. In the United States, where psychiatry only gradually became a primarily office practice beginning about 1920, psychiatrists influenced by Freud also worked in asylums. Adolf Meyer and William Alanson White were both hospital-based psychiatrists, as was Harry Stack Sullivan, who reported impressive results with his analytically oriented treatment beginning in the 1920s. Particularly influential, Sullivan's work led to the creation of a psychoanalytic enclave at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, devoted to the treatment of patients with schizophrenia and related disorders.

The rapid growth of psychoanalysis as a medical specialty in the United States after World War II affected the way that schizophrenia was perceived, understood, and treated. The broad theoretical reach of psychoanalysis, with its ambitious aims to provide a general psychology, extended to schizophrenia both as an explanatory tool and treatment modality. In retrospect it is clear that as a treatment it was not successful and that the early-childhood environmental deficit model that analysts proposed could not be sustained. At the time, however, without benefit of drugs or a significant knowledge base in neurochemistry, and in the wake of a period during which biological explanations of mental disease had favored eugenics, psychoanalysts appeared to be modern and forward-looking professionals who were making an earnest and humane effort to understand severe psychopathology in terms of developmental deficits.

Psychoanalysis was not seriously affected by the introduction of phenothiazine in the mid-1950s. But the narcoleptics and their successor drugs set the stage for the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill that began a decade later and also opened the way for the dopamine hypothesis, the first of various neurochemical pathways to be implicated in schizophrenia. By the late 1960s the authority of psychoanalysis was eroding, both as therapy and theory, and it had to compete with a diversified marketplace of competing treatments. As psychoanalysis in the United States entered a period of steep decline in the 1980s, its efforts on both a theoretical and clinical level were often held to be of no account. However, one positive outcome of analytic interest in the severe mental disorders, in fact, was a sophisticated and durable typology of what became known as the borderline and narcissistic disorders (Kernberg 1975), which developed along separate lines and found a respected place in clinical psychiatry and mental health practice more generally.

The list of analysts who studied and wrote about schizophrenia is long and includes interpersonalists, ego psychologists, Kleinians and their successors, together with any number who might be described as individualistic or idiosyncratic. Key texts included papers by Paul Federn, Melanie Klein, Harold Searles, and many others. Some analysts published books on schizophrenia that remained in print for decades, such as Frieda Fromm-Reichman's Principles of IntensivePsychotherapy (1950) and Silvano Arieti's The Interpretation of Schizophrenia (1955). Arieti served for years as editor of the voluminous American Handbook of Psychiatry.

Today, psychoanalysts view schizophrenia through a diversity of lenses. Many if not most would acknowledge the medical consensus that it is essentially a biological disorder and would not recommend the kind of intensive therapeutic efforts employed in the past. Analysts seeking an in media res would hold that analytic therapy can be beneficial while giving up earlier etiological views. A minority of analysts, post-Kleinians and others, continue to view schizophrenia as amenable in a global sense to therapeutic intervention and theoretical elaboration. Although the classic psychoanalytic model of the etiology of schizophrenia is definitively obsolete, all these currents can coexist and develop alongside the diathesis-stress model of the disorder, currently dominant in psychiatry and medicine.

Bibliography

Arieti, Silvano. (1955). The interpretation of schizophrenia. New York: Brunner.

Fromm-Reichmann, Freida. (1950). Principles of intensive psychotherapy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Kernberg, Otto. (1975). Borderline personality disorders and pathological narcissism. New York: Jason Aronson.

Shapiro, Sue. (1981). Contemporary theories of schizophrenia: Review and synthesis. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Willick, Martin. (2001). Psychoanalysis and schizophrenia: A cautionary tale. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49, 27-56.

Further Reading

Munich, R.L. (1997). Contemporary treatment of schizophrenia. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 61, 189-221.

—JOHN GALBRAITH SIMMONS

Oxford Companion to the Mind:

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Schizophrenia is the commonest of the severe mental illnesses, and interferes with the sufferers' thoughts, feelings, and ability to plan and carry out actions. Emil Kraepelin, 19th-century German psychiatrist, carried out work that has led to the current understanding of the illness. Based on meticulous observation of many patients, he suggested that severe mental illness could be differentiated into two major disorders: dementia praecox and manic–depressive insanity. Dementia praecox was a progressive illness that started in adolescence and followed a downhill course, whereas manic–depressive insanity was a phasic illness with periods of full recovery between episodes of the illness. Dementia praecox was rechristened schizophrenia by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1911 to reflect his belief that the illness was due to a splitting between the intellectual and emotional aspects of the individual.

Symptoms of the illness often seem bizarre and difficult to understand. This may be why surveys show that many members of the general public fear people who suffer from schizophrenia. There is a common misconception that it is a 'split personality', and that people with schizophrenia are akin to 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' characters. Another common myth, fed by a few high-profile cases and sensational media reporting, is that people with schizophrenia are dangerous. In fact, the vast majority are not violent and are much more likely to harm themselves than others. Violence, particularly homicide, has increased in many societies in recent decades, and there is no evidence that schizophrenia has contributed towards this.

People with schizophrenia suffer a range of abnormal experiences, and there is no diagnostic laboratory test. The diagnosis is thus a probabilistic statement and can be difficult to make in some cases. Schizophrenia affects the 'higher'-level functions of the brain, such as the systems controlling thoughts, moods, actions, and perceptions. These functions contribute most to making a person a unique individual, which is why the illness can be so devastating. The symptoms of schizophrenia are classically divided into 'positive' and 'negative' categories.

The positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, 'passivity phenomena' (the medical term for the experience that one's actions, feelings, and thoughts are under external control), and disruption of thought processes. People with schizophrenia may experience their thoughts being spoken aloud, or voices that seem to come from an external source although they are internally generated. They may develop unusual or impossible ideas and beliefs (delusions), partly as a response to these experiences. These ideas can take very varied forms with persecutory, grandiose, religious, paranormal, or personal themes, and often reflect the individual's interests. Thinking may be so affected that it becomes disjointed and difficult to follow. At its extreme there may cease to be any discernible connection between ideas so that conversation becomes incomprehensible.

Schizophrenia can diminish motivation, initiative, mood, and emotional expression; these constitute the category of 'negative' symptoms. This may lead sufferers to become slower to talk and act, and increasingly indifferent to social contact and emotional interaction. Over time patients may lose contact with their friends and family, be unable to continue working, and become withdrawn and isolated. At its most extreme, individuals lose the ability to look after themselves.

Infrequently movement disorders, such as fixed postures, repetitive movements, and mutism, are seen. These 'catatonic phenomena' have gradually become less common in Europe and North America but still occur in the developing world

Just fewer than one in 100 people will suffer from schizophrenia at some point in their life. It is more common in those living in urban than rural areas, and in some migrant groups, such as African–Caribbean people living in the UK. It is an illness that affects adults, being rare in children and gradually more common during adolescence. Strikingly, the peak age of onset is earlier in men (early twenties) compared to women (late twenties), and women show a later second peak around the time of the menopause. Nevertheless the lifetime risk for men and women is about equal.

Generally the illness first comes to attention through the acute development of florid positive symptoms. In retrospect it is often apparent that there were gradual changes, such as social withdrawal, before the development of acute symptoms. The course of the illness is very variable. About one in ten people show a good recovery from the first acute episode and go on to have no further episodes and show little or no residual disability. About a third make a good recovery from the initial episode but go on to have further episodes. A further third recover from the first episode but with some residual disability, and experience further episodes. About 20 per cent make a poor recovery from the first episode and have considerable ongoing disability. When assessed over 30 years after illness onset, about half have been found to have a good outcome. Evidence that people in developing countries have a better outcome has generated considerable interest. The likely explanation is that the less complex lifestyle in the developing world enables people who suffer from schizophrenia to integrate back into their community more readily (e.g. it may be easier to cope with continuing symptoms if one is working on the family farm rather than in a computer company). The disability associated with the illness often leads to depression, and the lifetime suicide rate among people with schizophrenia is about 1 in 10 (much higher than in the general population). The rates of cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses are also higher, possibly because of the combination of poverty and an unhealthy lifestyle that affects many sufferers. In the past, patients with schizophrenia spent most of their lives in large mental hospitals or 'asylums' but the development of effective treatments in the past 50 years has substantially improved the prognosis.

The disease causes great suffering to patients, their families, and carers. The World Health Organization global burden of disease assessment ranks schizophrenia as the ninth greatest cause of disability in the world. In addition, the health and social care costs for schizophrenia are considerable: about £810 million per year in England alone. It commonly affects individuals in early adulthood and so often prevents them from fulfilling their career and life ambitions. If indirect costs are considered, the financial burden in England is about £2.6 billion per year, even without allowing for lost careers.

The cause or causes of schizophrenia remain elusive despite over 100 years of research. There is evidence for the interplay of genetic and environmental factors. In contrast to Kraepelin's original idea that schizophrenia was a dementia (i.e. a disease characterized by progressive brain degeneration), there is considerable evidence to support the theory that schizophrenia is at least in part a disorder of brain development. This has been termed the neurodevelopmental hypothesis. Brain-imaging scans show that many people with schizophrenia have subtle structural brain abnormalities. In general the temporal lobe volume is smaller, and the fluid-filled parts of the brain (the ventricles) are larger. Studies of brain tissue show differences in the arrangement of cells in the brains of people with severe schizophrenia compared to normal. These findings suggest that early brain development has been impaired.

Children who go on to develop schizophrenia tend to show slight delays in their motor development, poorer educational achievement and social adjustment, and interpersonal difficulties many years before the onset of the symptoms. This supports the neurodevelopmental hypothesis. Home movies of these children show that they have more movement and postural abnormalities than their peers. As they enter adolescence these differences often become more noticeable until they enter the so-called prodrome of the illness, frequently characterized by social withdrawal, and then go on to develop psychotic symptoms.

There is strong evidence of a genetic component to schizophrenia. First-degree relatives of someone with schizophrenia have about a tenfold greater risk of developing the illness compared to the general population. This increases to nearly a 50 per cent lifetime risk of developing the illness among the children of two parents with schizophrenia. Studies of identical twins (who have the same copies of genes as each other) and of children adopted shortly after birth (so they grow up in a different environment to their siblings and parents) show that the increased risk is the result of inherited genes rather than anything to do with the family environment (such as attitudes, culture, or exposure to pathogens). As yet, it has not been possible to identify any of the predisposing genes, and it seems most likely that a number of genes, each with a small effect, are responsible. In this way the genetics of schizophrenia appear similar to those of other chronic medical disorders such as diabetes mellitus or coronary heart disease.

Despite evidence of a major genetic contribution to schizophrenia, other factors must be important. This is highlighted by the fact that among identical twins, where one has schizophrenia, the risk of the second twin developing schizophrenia is slightly less than 50 per cent and not 100 per cent, which would be the case if genes were solely responsible. Early environmental factors, such as medical problems during pregnancy and delivery, play a role. Complications such as pre-eclampsia, bleeding, prolonged labour, and asphyxia during delivery are more likely to have occurred to people who go on to develop schizophrenia compared to the general population. Another curious finding that points to the importance of the early environment for development of the brain in the womb is that people with schizophrenia are more likely to have been born in the late winter/early spring than other times of the year. This seasonal effect is seen in both northern and southern hemispheres. It has been suggested that a maternal viral infection that is more frequent during the winter might be responsible.

The neurodevelopmental hypothesis explains a predisposition to schizophrenia but not the timing of its onset. There is considerable evidence highlighting the role of various precipitating factors. The first psychotic episode often follows a major adverse life event, such as the loss of a relationship. Likewise using dopamine-releasing drugs, such as amphetamine or cocaine, can precipitate the first episode or a relapse of schizophrenia. Prolonged heavy abuse of cannabis also seems to increase the risk.

The acute symptoms appear to result from an excessive release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, while drugs that block dopamine receptors in the brain tend to diminish the symptoms. Consequently, the excess dopamine has been called the 'Wind of Psychotic Fire'. However, there is interest in the role that may be played by other neurotransmitters, particularly serotonin and glutamate. Brain-scanning techniques ('functional imaging') that show the brain working are an exciting recent development, and can show the abnormal neurochemistry (mainly involving dopamine) associated with acute symptoms. These techniques also allow researchers to investigate the abnormal physiology underlying schizophrenic symptoms as they occur. For example, normally when people think to themselves ('inner speech') they show activation of part of the brain responsible for producing speech (Broca's area) and deactivation of the part of the brain involved in processing of speech. Functional imaging scans (see brain imaging) of people experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) show that the parts of the brain responsible for further processing of sounds are not deactivated. This suggests the illness affects the brain's internal monitoring systems that differentiate between externally and internally generated words and, as a consequence, the mind experiences 'inner speech' as coming from an external source ('inner speech' seems like voices outside the head).

Until 50 years ago, there was little treatment that could be offered to people with schizophrenia, and this led in some cases to desperate therapies. This changed in the 1950s when chlorpromazine was found to have an antipsychotic action. A large number of antipsychotic drugs have been developed subsequently. Numerous high-quality trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of these medications in treating the acute symptoms of schizophrenia. Over two-thirds of sufferers will show a substantial alleviation of the florid positive symptoms, although all the medications take some time to have an antipsychotic effect. The initial action is largely sedative (which led to the old-fashioned name of 'major tranquillizer'). The sedation can be useful to reduce the distress of someone suffering acute symptoms but it takes two to six weeks for the psychotic symptoms to respond to treatment. Gradually the hallucinations and delusions wane in severity and extent. The antipsychotic action is related to the degree to which the drugs block dopamine receptors in the brain, with the clinical effect being most apparent when the D2 receptors — one type of dopamine receptor — are about 70 per cent blocked. Continuing to take the medication at a lower maintenance dose considerably reduces the likelihood of a further acute episode. People who have suffered two or more episodes are generally advised to continue taking the medication in the long term to reduce the likelihood of further episodes.

Unfortunately, high levels of dopamine blockade can cause abnormal movements, restlessness, and Parkinsonism, as well as unpleasant psychological symptoms (such as loss of enjoyment and enthusiasm). In the 1990s a number of 'atypical antipsychotics' were developed. These antipsychotics do not block dopamine to the same extent, and consequently have fewer side effects on the motor system than the older, 'typical' antipsychotics, making them more 'user-friendly'.

Unfortunately, a proportion of patients show no response to an adequate trial of several different antipsychotic medications, which is often known as 'treatment resistance'. The 1990s saw the recognition that one antipsychotic, clozapine, could be effective in this instance. About two-thirds of people with treatment resistance will show an improvement while taking clozapine. However, clozapine can have severe side effects so its use has to be closely monitored.

Social and psychological interventions are as important as drugs in the treatment and rehabilitation of people with schizophrenia. Research has shown that the environment and social milieu can significantly affect the course of the illness. Understimulation, such as long periods in hospital with nothing to do, has been linked with a poor outcome and, at its extreme, the institutionalization seen in the past among patients confined to asylums for many years. Recognition of institutionalization was a factor behind the moves in many countries towards community care. The opposite extreme, overstimulation (such as high levels of 'expressed emotion' in the form of repeated critical and hostile comments), increases the relapse rate. For patients living in a family with high levels of overstimulation, therapeutic interventions to reduce this have been shown to make relapse less likely.

Increasingly, cognitive–behavioural techniques are being used to treat the symptoms, and to help patients to reinterpret their experiences in a less bizarre way. Behavioural therapy can be effective in improving social skills. Occupational therapy aims to aid independence, for example through developing abilities used in the 'activities of daily living' such as cooking and cleaning. Day centres, employment schemes, and sheltered workshops help maximize an individual's level of function. Other social interventions, such as placement in sheltered housing, hostels, or group homes, contribute to independence, although there will be some who need long-term nursing support: 'asylum' in the sense of safety and provision.

Schizophrenia is a complex and variable condition, and treatment often requires sustained input from a multidisciplinary care team involving psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, and psychologists. Although there is no 'cure' for schizophrenia, the rapidly increasing understanding of the psychological and neurobiological aspects of the illness is now feeding through into better treatments and an improved outlook. Unfortunately, in most countries the full range of appropriate pharmacological and psychosocial treatments is only available to a minority of sufferers.

(Published 2004)

— Oliver Howes/Robin M. Murray

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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.


any mental disorder characterized by a special type of personality disintegration, random thought processes, and impaired relation to reality. Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs such as chlorpromazine, widely used in the symptomatic treatment of all forms of schizophrenia, are considered to act by blocking post synaptic dopamine D2 receptors, though most are not totally selective in this action.
schizophrenic adj., n.

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Schizophrenia (/ˌskɪtsɵˈfrɛniə/ or /ˌskɪtsɵˈfrniə/) is a mental disorder characterized by a breakdown of thought processes and by poor emotional responsiveness.[1] It most commonly manifests itself as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions, or disorganized speech and thinking, and it is accompanied by significant social or occupational dysfunction. The onset of symptoms typically occurs in young adulthood, with a global lifetime prevalence of about 0.3–0.7%.[2] Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and the patient's reported experiences.

Genetics, early environment, neurobiology, and psychological and social processes appear to be important contributory factors; some recreational and prescription drugs appear to cause or worsen symptoms. Current research is focused on the role of neurobiology, although no single isolated organic cause has been found. The many possible combinations of symptoms have triggered debate about whether the diagnosis represents a single disorder or a number of discrete syndromes. Despite the etymology of the term from the Greek roots skhizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-; "mind"), schizophrenia does not imply a "split mind" and it is not the same as dissociative identity disorder—also known as "multiple personality disorder" or "split personality"—a condition with which it is often confused in public perception.[3]

The mainstay of treatment is antipsychotic medication, which primarily suppresses dopamine (and sometimes serotonin) receptor activity. Psychotherapy and vocational and social rehabilitation are also important in treatment. In more serious cases—where there is risk to self and others—involuntary hospitalization may be necessary, although hospital stays are now shorter and less frequent than they once were.[4]

The disorder is thought mainly to affect cognition, but it also usually contributes to chronic problems with behavior and emotion. People with schizophrenia are likely to have additional (comorbid) conditions, including major depression and anxiety disorders; the lifetime occurrence of substance abuse is almost 50%.[5] Social problems, such as long-term unemployment, poverty and homelessness, are common. The average life expectancy of people with the disorder is 12 to 15 years less than those without, the result of increased physical health problems and a higher suicide rate (about 5%).[2]

Symptoms

A person diagnosed with schizophrenia may experience hallucinations (most reported are hearing voices), delusions (often bizarre or persecutory in nature), and disorganized thinking and speech. The latter may range from loss of train of thought, to sentences only loosely connected in meaning, to incoherence known as word salad in severe cases. Social withdrawal, sloppiness of dress and hygiene, and loss of motivation and judgment are all common in schizophrenia.[6] There is often an observable pattern of emotional difficulty, for example lack of responsiveness.[7] Impairment in social cognition is associated with schizophrenia,[8] as are symptoms of paranoia; social isolation commonly occurs.[9] In one uncommon subtype, the person may be largely mute, remain motionless in bizarre postures, or exhibit purposeless agitation, all signs of catatonia.[10]

Late adolescence and early adulthood are peak periods for the onset of schizophrenia,[2] critical years in a young adult's social and vocational development.[11] In 40% of men and 23% of women diagnosed with schizophrenia, the condition manifested itself before the age of 19.[12] To minimize the developmental disruption associated with schizophrenia, much work has recently been done to identify and treat the prodromal (pre-onset) phase of the illness, which has been detected up to 30 months before the onset of symptoms.[11] Those who go on to develop schizophrenia may experience transient or self-limiting psychotic symptoms[13] and the non-specific symptoms of social withdrawal, irritability, dysphoria,[14] and clumsiness[15] during the prodromal phase.

Schneiderian classification

The psychiatrist Kurt Schneider (1887–1967) listed the forms of psychotic symptoms that he thought distinguished schizophrenia from other psychotic disorders. These are called first-rank symptoms or Schneider's first-rank symptoms. They include delusions of being controlled by an external force; the belief that thoughts are being inserted into or withdrawn from one's conscious mind; the belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast to other people; and hearing hallucinatory voices that comment on one's thoughts or actions or that have a conversation with other hallucinated voices.[16] Although they have significantly contributed to the current diagnostic criteria, the specificity of first-rank symptoms has been questioned. A review of the diagnostic studies conducted between 1970 and 2005 found that they allow neither a reconfirmation nor a rejection of Schneider's claims, and suggested that first-rank symptoms be de-emphasized in future revisions of diagnostic systems.[17]

Positive and negative symptoms

Schizophrenia is often described in terms of positive and negative (or deficit) symptoms.[18] Positive symptoms are those that most individuals do not normally experience but are present in people with schizophrenia. They can include delusions, disordered thoughts and speech, and tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations, typically regarded as manifestations of psychosis.[19] Hallucinations are also typically related to the content of the delusional theme.[20] Positive symptoms generally respond well to medication.[20] Negative symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and respond less well to medication.[6] They commonly include flat or blunted affect and emotion, poverty of speech (alogia), inability to experience pleasure (anhedonia), lack of desire to form relationships (asociality), and lack of motivation (avolition). Research suggests that negative symptoms contribute more to poor quality of life, functional disability, and the burden on others than do positive symptoms.[21] People with prominent negative symptoms often have a history of poor adjustment before the onset of illness, and response to medication is often limited.[6][22]

Causes

A combination of genetic and environmental factors play a role in the development of schizophrenia.[2][3] People with a family history of schizophrenia who suffer a transient or self-limiting psychosis have a 20–40% chance of being diagnosed one year later.[23]

Genetic

Estimates of heritability vary because of the difficulty in separating the effects of genetics and the environment.[24] The greatest risk for developing schizophrenia is having a first-degree relative with the disease (risk is 6.5%); more than 40% of monozygotic twins of those with schizophrenia are also affected.[3] It is likely that many genes are involved, each of small effect.[3] Many possible candidates have been proposed, including specific copy number variations, NOTCH4 and histone protein loci.[25] A number of genome-wide associations such as zinc finger protein 804A have also been linked.[26] There appears to be significant overlap in the genetics of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.[27]

Assuming a hereditary basis, one question from evolutionary psychology is why genes that increase the likelihood of psychosis evolved, assuming the condition would have been maladaptive from an evolutionary point of view. One theory implicates genes involved in the evolution of language and human nature, but to date such ideas remain little more than theoretical in nature. [28][29]

Environment

Environmental factors associated with the development of schizophrenia include the living environment, drug use and prenatal stressors.[2] Parenting style seems to have no major effect, although people with supportive parents do better than those with critical or hostile parents.[3] Living in an urban environment during childhood or as an adult has consistently been found to increase the risk of schizophrenia by a factor of two,[2][3] even after taking into account drug use, ethnic group, and size of social group.[30] Other factors that play an important role include social isolation and immigration related to social adversity, racial discrimination, family dysfunction, unemployment, and poor housing conditions.[3][31] There is evidence that childhood experiences of abuse or trauma are risk factors for a diagnosis of schizophrenia later in life.[32]

Substance misuse

A number of drugs have been associated with the development of schizophrenia, including cannabis, cocaine, and amphetamines.[3] About half of those with schizophrenia use drugs and/or alcohol excessively.[33] The role of cannabis could be causal,[34] but other drugs may be used only as coping mechanisms to deal with depression, anxiety, boredom, and loneliness.[33][35]

Cannabis is associated with a dose-dependent increase in the risk of developing a psychotic disorder[36] with frequent use being correlated with twice the risk of psychosis and schizophrenia.[35][37] While cannabis use is accepted as a contributory cause of schizophrenia by many,[38] it remains controversial.[25][39] Amphetamine, cocaine, and to a lesser extent alcohol, can result in psychosis that presents very similarly to schizophrenia.[3][40] Although not generally believed to be a cause of the illness, people with schizophrenia use nicotine at much greater rates than the general population.[41]

Prenatal

Factors such as hypoxia and infection, or stress and malnutrition in the mother during fetal development, may result in a slight increase in the risk of schizophrenia later in life.[2] People diagnosed with schizophrenia are more likely to have been born in winter or spring (at least in the northern hemisphere), which may be a result of increased rates of viral exposures in utero.[3] This difference is about 5 to 8%.[42]

Mechanisms

A number of attempts have been made to explain the link between altered brain function and schizophrenia.[2] One of the most common is the dopamine hypothesis, which attributes psychosis to the mind's faulty interpretation of the misfiring of dopaminergic neurons.[2]

Psychological

Many psychological mechanisms have been implicated in the development and maintenance of schizophrenia. Cognitive biases have been identified in those with the diagnosis or those at risk, especially when under stress or in confusing situations.[43] Some cognitive features may reflect global neurocognitive deficits such as memory loss, while others may be related to particular issues and experiences.[44][45]

Despite a demonstrated appearance of "blunted affect", recent findings indicate that many individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are emotionally responsive, particularly to stressful or negative stimuli, and that such sensitivity may cause vulnerability to symptoms or to the disorder.[46][47] Some evidence suggests that the content of delusional beliefs and psychotic experiences can reflect emotional causes of the disorder, and that how a person interprets such experiences can influence symptomatology.[48][49][50] The use of "safety behaviors" to avoid imagined threats may contribute to the chronicity of delusions.[51] Further evidence for the role of psychological mechanisms comes from the effects of psychotherapies on symptoms of schizophrenia.[52]

Neurological

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and other brain imaging technologies, allow for the study of differences in brain activity in people diagnosed with schizophrenia. The image shows two levels of the brain, with areas that were more active in healthy controls than in schizophrenia patients shown in red, during an fMRI study of working memory.

Schizophrenia is associated with subtle differences in brain structures, found in 40 to 50% of cases, and in brain chemistry during acute psychotic states.[2] Studies using neuropsychological tests and brain imaging technologies such as fMRI and PET to examine functional differences in brain activity have shown that differences seem to most commonly occur in the frontal lobes, hippocampus and temporal lobes.[53] Reductions in brain volume, smaller than those found in Alzheimer's disease, have been reported in areas of the frontal cortex and temporal lobes. It is uncertain whether these volumetric changes are progressive or preexist prior to the onset of the disease.[54] These differences have been linked to the neurocognitive deficits often associated with schizophrenia.[55] Because neural circuits are altered, it has alternatively been suggested that schizophrenia should be thought of as a collection of neurodevelopmental disorders.[56]

Particular attention has been paid to the function of dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain. This focus largely resulted from the accidental finding that phenothiazine drugs, which block dopamine function, could reduce psychotic symptoms. It is also supported by the fact that amphetamines, which trigger the release of dopamine, may exacerbate the psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia.[57] The influential dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia proposed that excessive activation of D2 receptors was the cause of (the positive symptoms of) schizophrenia. Although postulated for about 20 years based on the D2 blockade effect common to all antipsychotics, it was not until the mid-1990s that PET and SPET imaging studies provided supporting evidence. The dopamine hypothesis is now thought to be simplistic, partly because newer antipsychotic medication (atypical antipsychotic medication) can be just as effective as older medication (typical antipsychotic medication), but also affects serotonin function and may have slightly less of a dopamine blocking effect.[58]

Interest has also focused on the neurotransmitter glutamate and the reduced function of the NMDA glutamate receptor in schizophrenia, largely because of the abnormally low levels of glutamate receptors found in the postmortem brains of those diagnosed with schizophrenia,[59] and the discovery that glutamate-blocking drugs such as phencyclidine and ketamine can mimic the symptoms and cognitive problems associated with the condition.[60] Reduced glutamate function is linked to poor performance on tests requiring frontal lobe and hippocampal function, and glutamate can affect dopamine function, both of which have been implicated in schizophrenia, have suggested an important mediating (and possibly causal) role of glutamate pathways in the condition.[61] But positive symptoms fail to respond to glutamatergic medication.[62]

Diagnosis

John Nash, a U.S. mathematician and joint winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics, suffered from schizophrenia. His life has been the subject of the 2001 Academy Award-winning film A Beautiful Mind.

Schizophrenia is diagnosed based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version DSM-IV-TR, or the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the ICD-10.[2] These criteria use the self-reported experiences of the person and reported abnormalities in behavior, followed by a clinical assessment by a mental health professional. Symptoms associated with schizophrenia occur along a continuum in the population and must reach a certain severity before a diagnosis is made.[3] As of 2009 there is no objective test.[2]

Criteria

The ICD-10 criteria are typically used in European countries, while the DSM-IV-TR criteria are used in the United States and the rest of the world, and are prevailing in research studies. The ICD-10 criteria put more emphasis on Schneiderian first-rank symptoms. In practice, agreement between the two systems is high.[63]

According to the revised fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), to be diagnosed with schizophrenia, three diagnostic criteria must be met:[64]

  1. Characteristic symptoms: Two or more of the following, each present for much of the time during a one-month period (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).
    • Delusions
    • Hallucinations
    • Disorganized speech, which is a manifestation of formal thought disorder
    • Grossly disorganized behavior (e.g. dressing inappropriately, crying frequently) or catatonic behavior
    • Negative symptoms: Blunted affect (lack or decline in emotional response), alogia (lack or decline in speech), or avolition (lack or decline in motivation)
    If the delusions are judged to be bizarre, or hallucinations consist of hearing one voice participating in a running commentary of the patient's actions or of hearing two or more voices conversing with each other, only that symptom is required above. The speech disorganization criterion is only met if it is severe enough to substantially impair communication.
  2. Social or occupational dysfunction: For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, one or more major areas of functioning such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, are markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset.
  3. Significant duration: Continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least six months. This six-month period must include at least one month of symptoms (or less, if symptoms remitted with treatment).

If signs of disturbance are present for more than a month but less than six months, the diagnosis of schizophreniform disorder is applied.[64] Psychotic symptoms lasting less than a month may be diagnosed as brief psychotic disorder, and various conditions may be classed as psychotic disorder not otherwise specified. Schizophrenia cannot be diagnosed if symptoms of mood disorder are substantially present (although schizoaffective disorder could be diagnosed), or if symptoms of pervasive developmental disorder are present unless prominent delusions or hallucinations are also present, or if the symptoms are the direct physiological result of a general medical condition or a substance, such as abuse of a drug or medication.

Subtypes

The DSM-IV-TR contains five sub-classifications of schizophrenia, although the developers of DSM-5 are recommending they be dropped from the new classification:[65][66]

  • Paranoid type: Delusions or auditory hallucinations are present, but thought disorder, disorganized behavior, or affective flattening are not. Delusions are persecutory and/or grandiose, but in addition to these, other themes such as jealousy, religiosity, or somatization may also be present. (DSM code 295.3/ICD code F20.0)
  • Disorganized type: Named hebephrenic schizophrenia in the ICD. Where thought disorder and flat affect are present together. (DSM code 295.1/ICD code F20.1)
  • Catatonic type: The subject may be almost immobile or exhibit agitated, purposeless movement. Symptoms can include catatonic stupor and waxy flexibility. (DSM code 295.2/ICD code F20.2)
  • Undifferentiated type: Psychotic symptoms are present but the criteria for paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic types have not been met. (DSM code 295.9/ICD code F20.3)
  • Residual type: Where positive symptoms are present at a low intensity only. (DSM code 295.6/ICD code F20.5)

The ICD-10 defines two additional subtypes:[66]

  • Post-schizophrenic depression: A depressive episode arising in the aftermath of a schizophrenic illness where some low-level schizophrenic symptoms may still be present. (ICD code F20.4)
  • Simple schizophrenia: Insidious and progressive development of prominent negative symptoms with no history of psychotic episodes. (ICD code F20.6)

Differential

Psychotic symptoms may be present in several other mental disorders, including bipolar disorder,[67] borderline personality disorder,[68] drug intoxication and drug-induced psychosis. Delusions ("non-bizarre") are also present in delusional disorder, and social withdrawal in social anxiety disorder, avoidant personality disorder and schizotypal personality disorder. Schizophrenia is comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) considerably more often than could be explained by pure chance, although it can be difficult to distinguish obsessions that occur in OCD from the delusions of schizophrenia.[69]

A more general medical and neurological examination may be needed to rule out medical illnesses which may rarely produce psychotic schizophrenia-like symptoms,[64] such as metabolic disturbance, systemic infection, syphilis, HIV infection, epilepsy, and brain lesions. It may be necessary to rule out a delirium, which can be distinguished by visual hallucinations, acute onset and fluctuating level of consciousness, and indicates an underlying medical illness. Investigations are not generally repeated for relapse unless there is a specific medical indication or possible adverse effects from antipsychotic medication.

Prevention

Currently the evidence for the effectiveness of early interventions to prevent schizophrenia is inconclusive.[70] While there is some evidence that early intervention in those with a psychotic episode may improve short term outcomes, there is little benefit from these measures after five years.[2] Attempting to prevent schizophrenia in the prodrome phase is of uncertain benefit and therefore as of 2009 is not recommended.[71] Prevention is difficult as there are no reliable markers for the later development of the disease.[72] However, some cases of schizophrenia could be delayed or possibly prevented by discouraging cannabis use, particularly among youths.[73] Individuals with a family history of schizophrenia may be more vulnerable to cannabis induced psychosis.[38] And, one study found that cannabis induced psychotic disorders are followed by development of persistent psychotic conditions in approximately half of the cases.[74]

Theoretical research continues into strategies that might lower the incidence of schizophrenia. One approach seeks to understand what happens on a genetic and neurological level to account for the illness, so that biomedical interventions can be developed. However, multiple and varied genetic effects each of small size, interacting with the environment, makes this difficult. Alternatively, public health strategies could selectively address socioeconomic factors that have been linked to higher rates of schizophrenia in certain groups, for example in relation to immigration, ethnicity or poverty. Population-wide strategies could promote services to ensure safe pregnancies and healthy growth, including in areas of psychological development such as social cognition. However, there is not enough evidence to implement such ideas at the current time, and a number of the broader issues are not specific to schizophrenia.[75][76]

Management

The primary treatment of schizophrenia is antipsychotic medications, often in combination with psychological and social supports.[2] Hospitalization may occur for severe episodes either voluntarily or (if mental health legislation allows it) involuntarily. Long-term hospitalization is uncommon since deinstitutionalization beginning in the 1950s, although still occurs.[4] Community support services including drop-in centers, visits by members of a community mental health team, supported employment[77] and support groups are common. Some evidence indicates that regular exercise has a positive effect on the physical and mental health of those with schizophrenia.[78]

Medication

Risperidone (trade name Risperdal) is a common atypical antipsychotic medication.

The first-line psychiatric treatment for schizophrenia is antipsychotic medication,[79] which can reduce the positive symptoms of psychosis in about 7–14 days. Antipsychotics, however, fail to significantly ameliorate the negative symptoms and cognitive dysfunction.[22][80]

The choice of which antipsychotic to use is based on benefits, risks, and costs.[2] It is debatable whether, as a class, typical or atypical antipsychotics are better.[81] Both have equal drop-out and symptom relapse rates when typicals are used at low to moderate dosages.[82] There is a good response in 40–50%, a partial response in 30–40%, and treatment resistance (failure of symptoms to respond satisfactorily after six weeks to two or three different antipsychotics) in 20% of people.[22] Clozapine is an effective treatment for those who respond poorly to other drugs, but it has the potentially serious side effect of agranulocytosis (lowered white blood cell count) in 1–4%.[2][3][83]

With respect to side effects typical antipsychotics are associated with a higher rate of extrapyramidal side effects while atypicals are associated with considerable weight gain, diabetes and risk of metabolic syndrome.[82] While atypicals have fewer extrapyramidal side effects these differences are modest.[84] Some atypicals such as quetiapine and risperidone are associated with a higher risk of death compared to the typical antipsychotic perphenazine, while clozapine is associated with the lowest risk of death.[85] It remains unclear whether the newer antipsychotics reduce the chances of developing neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a rare but serious neurological disorder.[86]

For people who are unwilling or unable to take medication regularly, long-acting depot preparations of antipsychotics may be used to achieve control.[87] When used in combination with psychosocial interventions they may improve long-term adherence to treatment.[87]

Psychosocial

A number of psychosocial interventions may be useful in the treatment of schizophrenia including: family therapy,[88] assertive community treatment, supported employment, cognitive remediation,[89] skills training, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), token economic interventions, and psychosocial interventions for substance use and weight management.[90] Family therapy or education, which addresses the whole family system of an individual, may reduce relapses and hospitalizations.[88] The evidence for CBT's effectiveness in either reducing symptoms or preventing relapse is minimal.[91][92] Art or drama therapy have not been well-researched.[93][94]

Prognosis

Schizophrenia has great human and economic costs.[2] It results in a decreased life expectancy of 12–15 years, primarily because of its association with obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and smoking, with an increased rate of suicide playing a lesser role.[2] These differences in life expectancy increased between the 1970s and 1990s,[95] and between the 1990s and first decade of the 21st century did not change substantially in a health system with open access to care (Finland).[85]

Schizophrenia is a major cause of disability, with active psychosis ranked as the third-most-disabling condition after quadriplegia and dementia and ahead of paraplegia and blindness.[96] Approximately three-fourths of people with schizophrenia have ongoing disability with relapses.[22] Some people do recover completely and others function well in society.[97] Most people with schizophrenia live independently with community support.[2] In people with a first episode of psychosis a good long-term outcome occurs in 42%, an intermediate outcome in 35% and a poor outcome in 27%.[98] Outcomes for schizophrenia appear better in the developing than the developed world.[99] These conclusions, however, have been questioned.[100][101]

There is a higher than average suicide rate associated with schizophrenia. This has been cited at 10%, but a more recent analysis of studies and statistics revises the estimate to 4.9%, most often occurring in the period following onset or first hospital admission.[102] Several times more (20 to 40%) attempt suicide at least once.[103][104] There are a variety of risk factors, including male gender, depression, and a high intelligence quotient.[103]

Schizophrenia and smoking have shown a strong association in studies world-wide.[105][106] Use of cigarettes is especially high in individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia, with estimates ranging from 80% to 90% being regular smokers, as compared to 20% of the general population.[106] Those who smoke tend to smoke heavily, and additionally smoke cigarettes with high nicotine content.[104] Some evidence suggests that paranoid schizophrenia may have a better prospect than other types of schizophrenia for independent living and occupational functioning.[107]

Epidemiology

Disability-adjusted life year for schizophrenia per 100,000 inhabitants in 2004.
  no data
  ≤ 185
  185–197
  197–207
  207–218
  218–229
  229–240
  240–251
  251–262
  262–273
  273–284
  284–295
  ≥ 295

Schizophrenia affects around 0.3–0.7% of people at some point in their life,[2] or 24 million people worldwide as of 2011.[108] It occurs 1.4 times more frequently in males than females and typically appears earlier in men[3]—the peak ages of onset are 20–28 years for males and 26–32 years for females.[109] Onset in childhood is much rarer,[110] as is onset in middle- or old age.[111] Despite the received wisdom that schizophrenia occurs at similar rates worldwide, its prevalence varies across the world,[112] within countries,[113] and at the local and neighborhood level.[114] It causes approximately 1% of worldwide disability adjusted life years.[3] The rate of schizophrenia varies up to threefold depending on how it is defined.[2]

History

Accounts of a schizophrenia-like syndrome are thought to be rare in the historical record before the 19th century, although reports of irrational, unintelligible, or uncontrolled behavior were common. A detailed case report in 1797 concerning James Tilly Matthews, and accounts by Phillipe Pinel published in 1809, are often regarded as the earliest cases of the illness in the medical and psychiatric literature.[115] Schizophrenia was first described as a distinct syndrome affecting teenagers and young adults by Bénédict Morel in 1853, termed démence précoce (literally 'early dementia'). The term dementia praecox was used in 1891 by Arnold Pick in a case report of a psychotic disorder. In 1893 Emil Kraepelin introduced a broad new distinction in the classification of mental disorders between dementia praecox and mood disorder (termed manic depression and including both unipolar and bipolar depression). Kraepelin believed that dementia praecox was primarily a disease of the brain,[116] and particularly a form of dementia, distinguished from other forms of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease which typically occur later in life.[117]

Molecule of chlorpromazine (trade name Thorazine), which revolutionized treatment of schizophrenia in the 1950s

The word schizophrenia—which translates roughly as "splitting of the mind" and comes from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind")[118]—was coined by Eugen Bleuler in 1908 and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler described the main symptoms as 4 A's: flattened Affect, Autism, impaired Association of ideas and Ambivalence.[119] Bleuler realized that the illness was not a dementia, as some of his patients improved rather than deteriorated, and thus proposed the term schizophrenia instead. Treatment was revolutionized in the mid-1950s with the development and introduction of chlorpromazine.[120]

In the early 1970s, the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia was the subject of a number of controversies which eventually led to the operational criteria used today. It became clear after the 1971 US-UK Diagnostic Study that schizophrenia was diagnosed to a far greater extent in America than in Europe.[121] This was partly due to looser diagnostic criteria in the US, which used the DSM-II manual, contrasting with Europe and its ICD-9. David Rosenhan's 1972 study, published in the journal Science under the title "On being sane in insane places", concluded that the diagnosis of schizophrenia in the US was often subjective and unreliable.[122] These were some of the factors leading to the revision not only of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, but the revision of the whole DSM manual, resulting in the publication of the DSM-III in 1980.[123] The term schizophrenia is commonly misunderstood to mean that affected persons have a "split personality". Although some people diagnosed with schizophrenia may hear voices and may experience the voices as distinct personalities, schizophrenia does not involve a person changing among distinct multiple personalities. The confusion arises in part due to the literal interpretation of Bleuler's term schizophrenia (Bleuler originally associated Schizophrenia with dissociation and included split personality in his category of Schizophrenia[124][125]). Dissociative identity disorder (having a "split personality") was also often misdiagnosed as Schizophrenia based on the loose criteria in the DSM-II [126][127]. The first known misuse of the term to mean "split personality" was in an article by the poet T. S. Eliot in 1933.[128]

Society and culture

The term schizophrenia was coined by Eugen Bleuler.

In 2002 the term for schizophrenia in Japan was changed from Seishin-Bunretsu-Byō 精神分裂病 (mind-split-disease) to Tōgō-shitchō-shō 統合失調症 (integration disorder) to reduce stigma.[129] The new name was inspired by the biopsychosocial model; it increased the percentage of patients who were informed of the diagnosis from 37% to 70% over three years.[130]

In the United States, the cost of schizophrenia—including direct costs (outpatient, inpatient, drugs, and long-term care) and non-health care costs (law enforcement, reduced workplace productivity, and unemployment)—was estimated to be $62.7 billion in 2002.[131] The book and film A Beautiful Mind chronicles the life of John Forbes Nash, a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician who was diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Social stigma has been identified as a major obstacle in the recovery of patients with schizophrenia.[132]

Violence

Individuals with severe mental illness including schizophrenia are at a significantly greater risk of being victims of both violent and non violent crime.[133] On the other hand, schizophrenia has sometimes been associated with a higher rate of violent acts, although this is primarily due to higher rates of drug use.[134] Rates of homicide linked to psychosis are similar to those linked to substance misuse, and parallel the overall rate in a region.[135] What role schizophrenia has on violence independent of drug misuse is controversial, but certain aspects of individual histories or mental states may be factors.[136]

Media coverage relating to schizophrenia tends to revolve around rare but unusual acts of violence. Furthermore, in a large, representative sample from a 1999 study, 12.8% of Americans believed that individuals with schizophrenia were "very likely" to do something violent against others, and 48.1% said that they were "somewhat likely" to. Over 74% said that people with schizophrenia were either "not very able" or "not able at all" to make decisions concerning their treatment, and 70.2% said the same of money management decisions.[137] The perception of individuals with psychosis as violent has more than doubled in prevalence since the 1950s, according to one meta-analysis.[138]

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Schizophrenia

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - skizofreni

Nederlands (Dutch)
schizofrenie

Français (French)
n. - schizophrénie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schizophrenie

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (ψυχολ.) σχιζοφρένια

Italiano (Italian)
schizofrenia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - esquizofrenia (f)

Русский (Russian)
шизофрения

Español (Spanish)
n. - esquizofrenia

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - schizofreni

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
精神分裂症

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 精神分裂症

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 정신 분열증

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 精神分裂症

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ألفصام, أنفصام ألشخصيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮פיצול האישיות, שסעת, סכיזופרניה‬


 
 

 

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