Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

• Nick Cola

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What is Schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia is severe chronic brain disorder

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Causes and symptoms

• Positive symptoms are hallucinating, unusual
  thoughts and disorders of movements. Negative
  symptoms are loss of being able to initiate plans
  speak and express emotions and the pleasure of
  every day life. Cognitive symptoms are problems
  with attention memory and functions that allow us
  to organize.
• The causes of Schizophrenia are stressful
  environmental conditions, viruses or malnutrition
  in the womb and problems during birth

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Treatments

• Antipsychotic medicines greatly reduce the
  effects of positive symptoms but do not cure
  schizophrenia

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Life with schizophrenia

• Life with schizophrenia is hard because you have
  hallucinations and people think your strange and
  crazy because you see stuff that isnt there.

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Bibliography

• www.helpguide.org
• www.nimh.nih.gov
• www.schizophrenia.com