It can be dangerous to live with a schizophrenic person if they do not take medication and get treatment. Some people with schizophrenia are violent while others are more docile.

Positive symptoms are the symptoms where a behavior or thought is present that should not be there (i.e. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, inappropriate emotions). Negative symptoms are the symptoms that are due to the absence of a behavior that should be present (i.e. psychomotor retardation, withdrawal from others, a catatonic state).

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is typically used to evaluate the effectiveness of a new medication in reducing symptoms of schizophrenia. Participants are randomly assigned to either the new medication or a placebo, and their progress is closely monitored and compared to determine if the medication is more effective than standard treatments.

Diathesis-stress theory suggests that mental disorders result from a combination of a genetic predisposition (diathesis) and environmental stressors. It highlights the interaction between a person's vulnerability to a disorder and external stressors in triggering its onset. This theory is often used to explain the development of various psychological conditions.

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel, and behave clearly. Symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, and difficulty with maintaining relationships and daily functioning. Treatment typically involves a combination of medications and therapy.

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Its not really laughing obviously but its because when you cry you tend to take shorter breaths that after a prolonged time crying causes you to start taking short gasps of air that resemble laughing.

The chance of the child of someone with schizophrenia also having schizophrenia is about 10 to 15 percent.

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Her best bet is a psychiatrist. Schizophrenia is best treated with both psychotherapy (also called "talk" therapy) and medicine. Psychiatrists can both prescribe medicine and provide psychotherapy. Even if it turns out that she doesn't have schizophrenia, the psychiatrist can help her understand why she thought that she did (or, if she has a related disorder, help her with that) and refer her to another specialist if she should see one. Tell her that if she tells her doctor that she wants to see a psychiatrist then her doctor will recommend one who is covered by her health care plan.

Yes. 75 percent of people with schizophrenia hallucinate; however, that means that 25 percent- one out of four- do not hallucinate. Hallucinations are not necessary for the diagnosis of schizophrenia.

That is completely dependent on how each child responds to attempts at pulling them out of some of their behaviors, stims, etc. There are many therapies available, ABA, OT, Speech therapy, RDI, SonRise, etc etc A lot of parents try bio-medical and dietary approaches toward a better quality of life for their children with autism. Some children respond amazingly well and DO get better with age, while other stay the same or get more frustrated as the years pass.

People are not born schizophrenic, although they are almost certainly born with the genetic makeup to become that way. Schizophrenia usually develops in young adulthood.

Yes, schizophrenia is a type of psychosis. Psychosis is an abnormality in perception or expression of reality. Schizophrenia is a subtype of this.

It would be possible, but very difficult. You would have to be an expert in schizophrenia in order to fake all of the symptoms and fool the psychiatrists. You would also have to keep up the pretence for a long time. There would be a lot more chances for you to trip and act normal than there would for you to fake it.

However, it is possible. People fake mental illness a lot of the time (Munchausen's Syndrome, though this is more commonly physical illness). However, why you would want to is beyond me as it will most likely involve you being "voluntarily" admitted to a psychiatric ward or community care team or being sectioned under the Mental Health Act, giving the ability for doctors to forcibly give you depot injections of antipsychotic medication.

In fact, there was an experiment done by the psychologist David Rosenhan that showed that people could fake schizophrenia (I'm not sure if it was paranoid schizophrenia or not) well enough to get into a mental hospital. A group of subjects agreed to go to a mental hospital and say that they had auditory hallucinations (hearing voices). They were, in fact, perfectly normal. Many of them were locked up for weeks or even months before they decided to stop.

Smoking does not reduce the causes of schizophrenia. However, there is some indication that smoking can reduce either the symptoms of schizophrenia or the side effects of antipsychotic medications, or both, which may be why 70-90 percent of people with schizophrenia smoke. The semi-beneficial effects of nicotine on people with schizophrenia may be caused by increased levels of acetycholine, which increases mood, and glutamate, which improves memory, in the brain. Both mood and memory problems are prevalent among people with schizophrenia.

Opinions are divided on that. Some clinicians say that mild cases of schizophrenia are possible, and are in fact true in cases of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Others say that schizophrenia is schizophrenia, and you cannot have a milder form of it.

Persons with schizophrenia do not have "split personality". Their illness is due to biochemical disturbance of the brain. The symptoms are as follows:

- disconnected and confusing language

- poor reasoning, memory and judgment

- high level of anxiety

- eating and sleeping disorders

- hallucinations or hearing and seeing things that only exist in the mind of the consumer

- delusions or persistent false beliefs about something (i.e. that others are controlling their thoughts)

- deterioration of appearance and personal hygiene -tendency to withdraw from others

Most schizophrenic criminals in the past were considered geniuses. If you've ever watched "Most Evil" most of those people were schizophrenic, and their plans were brilliant. They were very screwed up and evil, but they were smart. I'm schizophrenic and I have an IQ of over 140. The average American adult has an IQ of 110.

Paranoid schizophrenia is a mental health disorder in which the person believes that he or she is being persecuted when he or she is not, shows a pervasive (continuing) pattern of this, and has those beliefs when most people would say that there is no reason to believe that the person is being persecuted. If John believed that people at work were trying to hurt him and were always talking behind his back, then that would be an indication that John had paranoid schizophrenia.

Paranoid adolescent schizophrenia would be paranoid schizophrenia in teenagers, not in adults.

Its not known actually but its beilived adolescents stress and tension leads to the disease

No, hallucinations are a positive symptom. The difference between a negative and positive symptom is that a negative symptom means that something usually present in normal people (affect, social interaction) is missing, while a positive symptom means that something is present in the person that is not present in normal people (hallucinations, delusional thinking).

Homelessness, exacerbation of symptoms, poor hygiene, inability to care for self, etc.

Neuroleptics, or antipsychotics, are the drugs most commonly used to treat schizophrenia. They block the dopamine pathways to reduce the amount of dopamine in the brain, which could be one cause of the schizophrenia. However, it's difficult to get patients to stay on their medication because of the unpleasant side effects.