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What Is a Relationship Like With Someone Who Is Schizophrenic?
Having a relationship with someone diagnosed as schizophrenic requires patience and understanding. The problems experienced by healthy couples may be amplified with a partner who is mentally ill. With...
View ArticleHow to Write a Mental Health Power of Attorney
A power of attorney agreement allows one person to make decisions and act on the behalf of another in certain situations. Although they are often used for financial or legal matters, it is not uncommon...
View ArticleHow to Reduce Memory Loss in Schizophrenics
Schizophrenia is a psychotic neurological disorder that causes sufferers to abnormally interpret reality. Hallucinations like hearing "voices"; disordered thinking, speech and behavior; and delusions,...
View ArticleWhat Is Schizophrenia Attention Disorder?
Schizophrenia Attention Disorder is a term that may refer to impaired attention, cognition, and memory in those with schizophrenia.
View ArticleWhat Is the Dopamine Theory of Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a devastating mental illness that incapacitates people and causing horrifying hallucinations and delusions appear to be real. The Dopamine Theory of Schizophrenia attempts to explain...
View ArticleLorazepam as a Treatment for Schizophrenia
Lorazepam may be used for the treatment of catatonic schizophrenia, as well as agitation in other forms of schizophrenia.
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Pimavanserin in the Treatment of Schizophrenia
Pimavanserin is an atypical antipsychotic entering Phase III trials in December 2009. The second stage of trials focused on the drug's safety and effectiveness in schizophrenia, and the manufacturer,...
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Schizophrenia & Low Levels of Dopamine
Low levels of dopamine may play a role in the development of negative symptoms of schizophrenia. According to Psychiatric-Disorders.com, the exact relationship between dopamine imbalances and...
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Adult Residential Treatment for Schizophrenia
Mental illness, especially schizophrenia, frightens most people to avoidance. Oftentimes, schizophrenics, placed in residential treatment centers, receive very few visitors as loved ones fear the...
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Medication for Depression Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a disorder of the brain that causes auditory and visual hallucinations. This disorder also causes depression in afflicted patients which, in most cases, requires medication.
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Stem Cell Treatment for Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, a disorder of the brain that causes visual and auditory hallucinations, is treated with powerful drugs caused anti-psychotics. These drugs have potentially fatal side effects and lose...
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Signs & Symptoms of Dementia Praecox
According to Medilexicon's medical dictionary, schizophrenia was a term used by Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleule in 1910, meaning the same thing as dementia praecox. In fact, schizophrenia replaces...
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Alter Ego Theory
Alter ego theory provides protection against the limited liability clause, which states that investors cannot hold the owner financially responsible for a company's debts. The theory allows investors...
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Seroquel Used for Dementia
Seroquel, or quetiapine fumarate, is an atypical anti-psychotic drug produced by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The FDA has approved this potent medicine for very specific uses.
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How to Idenifiy Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Of the ten currently recognized personality disorders Schizotypal Personality Disorder is perhaps the most "odd" in terms of its symptoms and associated behavior. It also considered the most severe and...
View ArticleHow to Help a Schizophrenic
A schizophrenic may often experience out of the ordinary or odd behavior. People who are schizophrenic may have problems thinking and expressing the correct emotions. You can help a schizophrenic get...
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Signs & Symptoms of Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
According to the National Alliance of Mental Illness, more than two million American adults suffer from schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by the presence of certain bizarre...
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Common Misconceptions About Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia has been misunderstood for hundreds of years, according to the World Health Organization. The Missouri Department of Mental Health calls it America's most common but least understood...
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Patient Care Plan for Schizophrenia
A patient with schizophrenia can be unpredictable and unreliable. Most schizophrenia patients will go off their medications at least once during "good" periods, which inevitably results in the patient...
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Explain Extrapyramidal Side Effects
Neuroleptic medications can cause extrapyramidal side effects. The neuroleptic medication clozapine carries the lowest risk of these reactions but the U.S. and Europe do not prescribe it for long term...
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