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full recovery to severe incapacity. A significant proportion of schizophrenic patients have resultant negative outcomes, including an increased mortality rate mostly associated with suicide. Suicide, accidents, and disease are common
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Does Schizoaffective Disorder have better prognosis than Schizophrenia?
Yes. In Schizoaffective Disorder, criterion A is met for schizophrenia (delusions and hallucinations), but there is the ability to generate affect (show emotion) which confers are an improved prognosis and treatment course - as compared to schizophrenia proper.
What is the prognosis for schizoaffective disorder?
patients.have a more favorable prognosis than do those with schizophrenia. Medication and other interventions can help quell psychotic symptoms and stabilize mood in many patients, but there is great variability in outcome from patient to patient.
Is schizophrenia more common in men than in women?
Although males tend to have a longer and more severe course of schizophrenia, meaning that at any one time more males than females will have schizophrenia, the lifetime incidence of schizophrenia is the same among both genders.
Is there anyone who has been diagnosed as having process schizophrenia?
some must be. The definition states... an obsolete term for those forms of severe schizophrenic disorders in which chronic and progressive biologic conditions in the brain are considered to be the primary cause and in which prognosis is also poor, with insidious onset at a young age, as contrasted with reactive schizophrenia.
What is the prediction of a disease's outcome?
Prognosis Pro = prior or before Gnosis = knowledge
What is the prognosis for patients with hallucinations?
In many cases, chronic hallucinations caused by schizophrenia or some other mental illness can be controlled by medication. If hallucinations persist, psychosocial therapy can be helpful in teaching the patient the coping skills to deal with them
If a 30 year old has schizophrenia could the mother have it as well?
Yes. Schizophrenia is partly genetic, meaning that if you have a relative with schizophrenia you are likely to also have schizophrenia. About 1/10 of people with a relative with schizophrenia develop schizophrenia, compared to 1/100 people without a relative with schizophrenia.
Is schizophrenia a disability?
People with schizophrenia usually have normal cognitive function at the beginning of the course of schizophrenia.
What are the causes of residual schizophrenia?
Residual schizophrenia is caused by a partial recovery from schizophrenia. For an explanation of what causes schizophrenia, please see the related question.
How are age and gender linked to schizophrenia?
Teenagers and young adults are most likely to get schizophrenia. Women with schizophrenia are more likely to have less severe schizophrenia and have paranoid schizophrenia, as well as developing schizophrenia at an average age of 25; men have a more severe course, with higher rates of disorganized and catatonic schizophrenia as well as developing schizophrenia at the average age of 18.
Subtype of schizophrenia in which there is immobility?
Catatonic schizophrenia.
Is schizophrenia on axis I or II?
Schizophrenia is on Axis I.
