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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
schizophrenia
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
paranoid
▪ The trial was told that he was diagnosed as suffering paranoid schizophrenia.
▪ Attorneys say he may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.
▪ His dad, Charles, was lovable and devoted, but afflicted with paranoid schizophrenia.
▪ They have told prosecutors Kaczynski may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental disorder that can cause intricate delusions.
▪ We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia, and she tells us to be quiet.
▪ They say he also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, a condition that produces intricate delusions that may have clouded his judgment.
■ VERB
suffer
▪ The first type - active familial disruption - involved a woman in her thirties who was considered to be suffering from schizophrenia.
▪ Attorneys say he may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia.
▪ Smyth's lawyer, Barry Gibson, said that Smyth suffered from schizophrenia.
▪ They have told prosecutors Kaczynski may suffer from paranoid schizophrenia, a mental disorder that can cause intricate delusions.
▪ He suffered from dementia and schizophrenia.
▪ They say he also suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, a condition that produces intricate delusions that may have clouded his judgment.
▪ Understandably, Smith Square has suffered from collective schizophrenia.
▪ The trial was told that he was diagnosed as suffering paranoid schizophrenia.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both schizophrenia and mood disorders show evidence of decreased activity in frontal lobes and abnormal function of the system for directed attention.
▪ Edwina Swan, James Swan, schizophrenia and murder one.
▪ In essential schizophrenia the characteristic pattern is of withdrawal from the impacts of experience in the outside world.
▪ Incidentally, what is the concordance in schizophrenia in identical twins?
▪ Next month's summit-at-sea may see a resolution of the Bush Administration's schizophrenia over Moscow.
▪ The feeling is, rather, that a certain genetic vulnerability is inherited which may or may not lead to schizophrenia.
▪ This may well lead to the development of more effective drugs for schizophrenia.
▪ Thus diseases like diabetes, schizophrenia, and obesity were rare in the developed world by 2010.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
schizophrenia

1912, from Modern Latin, literally "a splitting of the mind," from German Schizophrenie, coined in 1910 by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler (1857-1939), from Greek skhizein "to split" (see schizo-) + phren (genitive phrenos) "diaphragm, heart, mind," of unknown origin.

Wiktionary
schizophrenia

n. 1 (context pathology English) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion. 2 (context informal figurative English) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

WordNet
schizophrenia

n. any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact [syn: schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis, dementia praecox]

Wikipedia
Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, hearing voices, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and a lack of motivation. People with schizophrenia often have additional mental health problems such as anxiety disorders, major depressive illness, or substance use disorder. Symptoms typically come on gradually, begin in young adulthood, and last a long time.

The causes of schizophrenia include environmental and genetic factors. Possible environmental factors include being raised in a city, cannabis use, certain infections, parental age, and poor nutrition during pregnancy. Genetic factors include a variety of common and rare genetic variants. Diagnosis is based on observed behavior and the person's reported experiences. During diagnosis a person's culture must also be taken into account. As of 2013 there is no objective test. Schizophrenia does not imply a "split personality" or " multiple personality disorder"—a condition with which it has been confused with in public perception.

The mainstay of treatment is antipsychotic medication along with counselling, job training, and social rehabilitation. It is unclear if typical or atypical antipsychotics are better. In those who do not improve with other antipsychotics, clozapine may be used. In more serious cases—where there is risk to self or others— involuntary hospitalization may be necessary, although hospital stays are now shorter and less frequent than they once were.

About 0.3–0.7% of people are affected by schizophrenia during their lifetime. In 2013 there was estimated to be 23.6 million cases globally. Males are more often affected than females. About 20% of people do well and a few recover completely. Social problems, such as long-term unemployment, poverty, and homelessness are common. The average life expectancy of people with the disorder is ten to twenty-five years less than the average. This is the result of increased physical health problems and a higher suicide rate (about 5%). In 2013 an estimated 16,000 people died from behavior related to, or caused by, schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia (disambiguation)

Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis.

Schizophrenia or Schizo may also refer to:

Schizophrenia (Sepultura album)

Schizophrenia is the second studio album by Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, released on October 30, 1987 by Cogumelo Records. It is the first album for the band with Andreas Kisser. The album's sound leans more towards the thrash metal genre than the previous album Morbid Visions, which is stylistically closer to death metal and black metal. All songs were recorded during August 1987, except for the bonus track "Troops of Doom" which was recorded during August 26–27, 1990.

In America the band sent radio playlists at the time when they were struggling to book gigs because club owners were afraid to book them due to their style. Roadrunner Records signed them and released Schizophrenia internationally before seeing the band perform in person.

Schizophrenia (Wayne Shorter album)

Schizophrenia is the eleventh album by Wayne Shorter, recorded on 10 March 1967 and released on the Blue Note label. The album features five originals by Shorter and an arrangement of James Spaulding's "Kryptonite". The album features pianist Herbie Hancock and bassist Ron Carter, bandmates of Shorter from Miles Davis' quintet at the time.

Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)

Object schizophrenia or self schizophrenia is a complication arising from delegation and related techniques in object-oriented programming, where self/this can refer to more than one object. By way of metaphor with the public confusion of dissociative identity disorder with the psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia, the former being associated with "split personalities," this configuration is called object schizophrenia or self schizophrenia in object-oriented programming.

Usage examples of "schizophrenia".

What I learned now was that the LSD retreat and inward plunge can be compared to an essential schizophrenia, and the antinomianism of contemporary youth to a paranoid schizophrenia.

I learned now was that the LSD retreat and inward plunge can be compared to an essential schizophrenia, and the antinomianism of contemporary youth to a paranoid schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia, you know, was once thought to mean possession by devils, and hydrocephalic idiots were considered peculiarly blessed.

This is due to a determined hypothesis that the later stage of the ongoing disease of this Pandemic is that of psychosis simulating in otherwise normal people, that of schizophrenia, paranoia, perhaps violent episodes.

Famously ill geniuses include Dostoevsky, afflicted with epilepsy, and Van Gogh, who suffered from an undiagnosed disorder that could have been schizophrenia, epilepsy, or the ravages of advanced alcoholism.

The possibility that serotonin in excess produces schizophrenia is greatly weakened, nevertheless, by the fact that a compound very closely related to lysergic acid diethylamide interferes with serotonin oxidation even more and yet produces no hallucinations.

Barring a miracle, Sojee would be stuck with schizophrenia and tardive dyskinesia as long as she lived.

The voder had lost the ability to speak, both machines adrift in a stupefying realization that could only be described as the artificial intelligence equivalent of hebephrenic schizophrenia.

Metz could hint that Mariah has leprosy, schizophrenia, or this Munchausen by Proxy--anything, just so long as it makes Rothbottam sit back and reconsider.

In the spring of 1968 I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.

I was invited to deliver a series of talks on schizophrenia at the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California.

Labour government is always of two minds, it operates in a kind of schizophrenia.

Many people believe that schizophrenia is a postadolescent occurrence.

Soon he knew about the many forms of schizophrenia, as well as other psychoses, neuroses, paranoias, and an entire alphabet of phobias.

Meanwhile, Mainwaring was treating what he thought was schizophrenia with phenothiazines, which, when combined with the anticholinergics, toxified Jamey's nervous system further.