Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia can cause both blunting of affect (which means not showing emotions well) and lack of emotion.

It's not that rare, and a lot of people have it. Diseases that were rare back in the 1900's or so are becoming more well known today, such as cancer and other things including bipolar disorder.

memory loss is more closely associated with Alzheimer's or dissociative amnesia, even though both mental abnormalities aren't related to each other.

schizophrenia, on the other hand does involve problems with memory and the creation of memories of events that never took place or of people who don't exist.

But, for someone to exhibit memory loss, but none of the other classic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as delusions/hallucinations, general illogical thinking, disorganized patterns of speech, and basically no definite concept of what is real and unreal does not mean that a person has schizophrenia.

No. Anxiety and schizophrenia are two different disorders. Anxiety is neurotic, and schizophrenia is psychotic. Although at times anxiety in severe cases can lead to losing touch with reality ( severe anxiety ) it can never lead to a psychotic disorder like schizophrenia.

This would probably be a psychiatrist. A major difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist is that a psychiatrist can prescribe medication, which is often used in treating schizophrenia.

It treats it, but doesn't cure it.

Schizophrenia can be identified because of the odd behavior of the persons that it effects. Hearing voices, hallucinations, becoming catatonic, thinking people are trying to kill you, believing that you are an important person (like the president), talking in nonsensical sentances (word salad) are all symptoms of the disease. Affected people's brains can be differentiated from normal persons brains via brain scan as well. Certain psychoactive medications do help person with schizophrenia. Usually doctors make diagnosis based on symptoms that are observed in a patient.

schizophrenia is a mental condition characterized by personality disorders among others. there are more than four types but the most common is the 'paranoid schizophrenia' the patient exhibits suspicious trait and does not feel safe.

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.

Usually hearing voices is a sign of hallucinations which is a sign of mental illness. If you are hearing voices externally then these hallucinations could be signs of schizophrenia. See your doctor, it could be serious.

Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects the way a person acts, thinks, and sees the world. People with schizophrenia have an altered perception of reality, often a significant loss of contact with reality

Although so-called schizophrenia is said to be a brain disease, while DID is acknowledged to be a psychological reaction to traumatic life events, so far no evidence has been found to support this distinction, and prove the brain disease hypothesis of schizophrenia to be true. In fact, newer research strongly indicates that both are caused by childhood trauma. Dissociation is not restricted to DID, but can be observed in schizophrenia as well. If a person is labelled with schizophrenia or DID depends on to which extent dissociation in relation to other trauma responses is predominant. If a fight, flight, or freeze response is predominant, the person will most likely be labelled with schizophrenia. If dissociation is the predominant feature she will probably be labelled with DID.

Less than 2% of the American population. It is slightly more prevalent in men and often manifests more florid symptoms that begin at an earlier age (in males). It runs in families. It is also diagnosed more in African Americans, but this is likely due to evaluator bias than a real trend.
History of alcohol and/or drug abuse during pregnancy is also a factor. Also childhood sexual molestation. The victim often disassociates him/herself from the event as an early age. Another factor is inbreeding. offspring of inbred ancestors have a huge risk in schizophrenia. American Natives have such known factors from their lifestyles.
Poor sanitation and alcohol abuse and incestuous relationships or Abusive sexual experiences from older relatives to their younger, innocent children. Usually uncles molesting the younger boys with force. Fathers molesting their infant daughters, causing them to become sexually active at a very young age. Most schizophrenic patients experience "Demons" harassing or mocking them along with a frenzied sexual activity or masturbation.

There is no specific term for a psychologist who treats schizophrenia. A psychologist who treats schizophrenia may specialize in cognitive-behavioral therapy or medication interactions.

The professional who would most often treat schizophrenia is a psychiatrist; however, psychiatrists are not psychologists.

The most effective way to deal with Paranoid Personality Disorder is to undergo therapy. This type of mental illness is very hard to treat though as there is not much research about it since most people will not go to the doctor about it.

Someone who is not thinking in their right mind. Given to fantasy or corrupt thinking and concepts.

A variety of symptoms are associated with catatonia. Among the more common are echopraxia (imitation of the gestures of others) and echolalia (parrot-like repetition of words spoken by others).

People with schizophrenia usually have normal cognitive function at the beginning of the course of schizophrenia.

This is true. The root word "schizo" means "split". This is why many people associate multiple personality disorder ("split" personalities) with schizophrenia. However, the "split" refers to the split between the mind and the rest of the world. The thought processes are no longer logical.

You can be diagnosed with schizophrenia at any age, although an age below 13 is termed "juvenile-onset schizophrenia" and an age above 45 is termed "adult-onset schizophrenia". The average age of onset for men is 18 and the average age of onset for women is 25.

M a patient of known depression... m having major depressive disorder.... and ya.. sometimes i have delusion too.... its sounds more like schizophrenia.... but is it really ?... i cant say.... but one thing i do notice.... delusion is too frequent and its sometimes like hallucination also...

Schizophrenia is only partially genetic, and therefore is neither recessive nor dominant.

Autism and schizophrenia are not connected at all. In fact, it has been scientifically demonstrated that if you have an allele for schizophrenia you are less likely to have autism.

Women generally have a later age of onset than men. The average age of a man's first psychotic episode is 18, while a woman's is 25. Women generally have a higher rate of paranoid schizophrenia compared to other types. Women more often have problems with affect (i.e. having inappropriate emotional responses or not showing responses), but also generally have better lives after recovery.