Schizophrenia

Prepared by: Jinky Lacorda

Camille Isip
 What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a chronic, severe mental
disorder that affects the way a person
thinks, acts, expresses emotions, perceives
reality, and relates to others. Though
schizophrenia isn’t as common as other
major mental illnesses, it can be the most
chronic and disabling.
 Onset
Schizophrenia symptoms generally start in
the mid- to late 20s. It's uncommon in
children to be diagnosed with this problem.
Early-onset of schizophrenia occurs before
age 18. Very early-onset schizophrenia in
children younger than age 13 is extremely
rare.
 Two Major Categories
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Positive or Hard Symptoms/Signs
• Ambivalence
• Associative looseness
• Delusions
• Echopraxia
• Flight of ideas
• Hallucinations
• Ideas of reference
• Perseveration
• Bizarre behavior
 Two Major Categories
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Negative or soft symptoms
• Alogia
• Anhedonia
• Apathy
• Asociality
• Blunted affect
• Catatonia
• Flat affect
• Avolition or lack of volition
• inattention
 Related Disorders
• Schizophreniform disorder
• Catatonia
• Delusional disorder
• Brief psychotic disorder
• Shared psychotic disorder
• Schizotypal personality disorder
 Etiology
The exact cause of schizophrenia isn’t known. But like
cancer and diabetes, schizophrenia is a real illness with a
biological basis. Researchers have uncovered a number of
things that appear to make someone more likely to get
schizophrenia, including:
• Genetics (heredity)
• Brain chemistry and circuits
• Brain abnormality
• Environment
 Treatment
The goal of schizophrenia treatment is to ease the
symptoms and to cut the chances of a relapse, or return
of symptoms. Treatment for schizophrenia may include:
Medications
•First-generation antipsychotics
•Second-generation antipsychotics

Coordinated specialty care (CSC)

Psychosocial therapy
•Rehabilitation
•Cognitive remediation
•Individual psychotherapy
•Family therapy
•Group therapy/support groups
Hospitalization
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Research