Summarize the following: Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric illness that strikes 1% of the world's population. The illness is equally prevalent in males and females and emerges... Summarize the following: Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric illness that strikes 1% of the world's population. The illness is equally prevalent in males and females and emerges in young adults during the late teens and early twenties, with a slightly earlier onset in males than in females. Emil Kraeplin first described schizophrenia as “dementia praecox” in 1883. Later, Eugen Bleuler, in 1911 coined the term schizophrenia to describe a cluster of symptoms characterized by thought disorders, or the discontinuity among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, which reflect a break in reality or splitting of the cognitive from the emotional side of one's personality. An individual with schizophrenia may exhibit a feeling of happiness when recollecting a terrible event or emotional indifference when describing a joyful occasion. Today, schizophrenia is characterized by positive and negative symptoms. Positive symptoms include auditory hallucinations; visual hallucinations; olfactory, tactile, and gustatory hallucinations; and paranoid or grandiose delusions. Negative symptoms include anhedonia, avolition, alogia, flattened affect, and cognitive deficits that have devastating effects on the individual and the individual's family.
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Schizophrenia affects 1% globally, with early onset during late teens. It involves thought disorders and a break in emotion-cognition connection, showing symptoms like hallucinations.
Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness affecting about 1% of the global population, striking both males and females in their late teens to early twenties. First described as 'dementia praecox' by Emil Kraepelin in 1883 and renamed by Eugen Bleuler in 1911, it involves thought disorders and a disconnection between emotions and cognition, displaying symptoms such as hallucinations and emotional indifference.
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Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness affecting about 1% of the global population, striking both males and females in their late teens to early twenties. First described as 'dementia praecox' by Emil Kraepelin in 1883 and renamed by Eugen Bleuler in 1911, it involves thought disorders and a disconnection between emotions and cognition, displaying symptoms such as hallucinations and emotional indifference.
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Notably, the term schizophrenia means 'splitting of the mind' and aims to describe the mental fragmentation it causes. It remains a complex, challenging disorder with evolving understanding and treatments.
Tips
Avoid assuming schizophrenia means multiple personalities; it refers instead to disrupted thought processes and emotional incongruity.
Sources
- Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) - Embryo Project Encyclopedia - embryo.asu.edu
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