Sentences with phrase «schizophrenic symptoms»

Whether this impairment is part of the cause of schizophrenic symptoms or arises as a result of them is, as yet, not known.

The obvious schizophrenic symptoms — such as having animated conversations with people who aren't really there — can be controlled by antipsychotic drugs.

Glutamate imbalances can cause schizophrenic symptoms.

There are possible reasons why this might not be a simple causal relationship — it could be that people with incipient psychosis are self - medicating, or it could be that people with schizophrenic symptoms are also more likely to engage in risky behaviours, such as smoking cannabis.

Not exact matches

It is obvious to me that I altered my brain significantly after years of intense / deep prayer and meditation and that as a result of these contributory experiences I was a high - functioning schizophrenic for a good portion of my life — there were things going on in my biology which predisposed me to being a depressive and a high - functioning schizophrenic but engaging in intense / deep prayer and meditation was only exacerbating this problem by altering my state of consciousness which precipitated the psychotic symptoms and psychic phenomena which I experienced.

here, the demon - possessed, god - hating paranoid schizophrenics clearly manifest symptoms of both.

Although fewer than 1 percent of the general population will be diagnosed as schizophrenic based on symptoms such as hallucination and disorganized thought, for children of a schizophrenic parent, those odds jump to about one in 10.

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

What is striking about them is that the father - leaning disorders tend to produce autistic symptoms, while the mother - leaning disorders tend to produce schizophrenic ones.

Many schizophrenics show chronic inflammation and lose brain tissue over time, and these changes correlate with the severity of their symptoms.

The attenuation of MP's effects could also reflect abnormal D2 receptor function, as was previously suggested to explain findings in marijuana - abusing schizophrenic patients, who, despite displaying low DA release, showed increases in psychotic symptoms when challenged with amphetamine (21).

One study focusing on treatment - resistant schizophrenic patients found that high - dose glycine in association with antipsychotic medication could significantly alleviate negative symptoms associated with this mental illness1.

For 15 years in my early career I rated the delusions of schizophrenic patients on a 7 - point scale (the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale) from not - present to severe and I participated in annual reliability training in these symptom ratings through my role as a research associate on a longitudinal research project on schizophrenia at UCLA.

After nine months, family - managed patients had fewer exacerbations of schizophrenia, lower ratings of schizophrenic psychopathology, fewer hospital admissions, and a trend toward lower deficit symptoms and reduced neuroleptic dosage.

Heart rate dynamics and their relationship to psychotic symptom severity in clozapine - treated schizophrenic subjects.

It originated in the early 50's when doctors working with schizophrenic patients noticed that the communication dynamic between all the family members was dysfunctional and the symptoms of the patients intensified when there was more conflict within the family.

A trial of two cognitive - behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant residual psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients.

None of the control adoptees, or adoptees whose biological parents did not suffer from schizophrenia, had schizophrenia themselves, and only a small percentage of them displayed schizophrenic - type symptoms.

(No more than two schizophrenics, no more than two borderlines or no more than two depressives or the group can become symptom driven.)

A trial of two cognitive - behavioural methods of treating drug - resistant psychotic symptoms in schizophrenic patients: I. Outcome