Sentences with phrase «illnesses like schizophrenia»

«I think I can best serve the research by not being a user - advocate,» he says, heeding a healthy number of studies that show the drug can precipitate psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and cause people to engage in lethal behavior like jumping off buildings.

Psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia and depression are more mysterious, he adds, because there are no known brain lesions scientists can ascribe to those conditions.

Not exact matches

In Walsh's case, the disease attacked her brain, setting off a chain reaction of symptoms that mimicked those of other mental illnesses like depression and schizophrenia.

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Individuals with severe schizophrenia can lie, cheat, steal, and commit other crimes just like anybody else and have sometimes done so both before and after the onset of their illness.

«It is an absolute scandal that people with conditions like schizophrenia die up to 20 years younger than average, because of preventable physical illnesses.

Some researchers believe that smoking cigarettes and taking recreational drugs like LSD, ecstasy and cannabis, may elevate a user's risk of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia — although it can be difficult to assess whether drug use is a cause or effect.

While they aren't sure yet, the researchers note that the Zika virus resembles some infections that can increase the risk for mental illness later in life, like schizophrenia, autism, and bipolar disorder.

That's partly because the symptoms of BPD can look a lot like those of other mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, depression, and schizophrenia.

2006 - 2010: Worked as a private therapist counselling patients with various mental illnesses helped them cope with ailments like depression, physical abuse, alcoholism, drug abuse, schizophrenia, manic depressive or bipolar disorder and so on

Schizoaffective Disorder is a mental illness that has some symptoms of mood disorders (affective) like depression or mania, and some symptoms of schizophrenia (psychosis), either at the same time or within a few days of each other.