See Also: Schizophrenia(medicine)
schizophrenia(dictionary)
schizophrenia(dictionary)
schizophrenia(encyclopedia)
Schizophrenia(health)
schizophrenia, disorganised(medicine)
acute schizophrenia(medicine)
schizophrenia, paranoid(medicine)
ambulatory schizophrenia(medicine)
simple schizophrenia(medicine)

Schizophrenia (health)


Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects of the frontal lobe and is caused by genetic, other biological, and psychosocial factors. It is mainly treated by antipsychotic drugs which block Dopamine receptors such as Haloperidol.