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schizophrenia
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disorder characterized both by a deteriorating ability to function in everyday life and by some combination of hallucinations, delusions, thought disorder, movement disorder, and inappropriate emotional expressions
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positive symptom
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presence of a behavior not seen in normal people
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negative symptom
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absence of a behavior ordinarily seen in normal people, for example, lack of emotional expression
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delusion
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beliefs that other people regard as unfounded, such as the belief that tone is being severely persecuted
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hallucination
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sensory experience that does not correspond to reality
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thought disorder
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disorder of schizophrenia indicted by impaired thinking, such as difficulty in understanding and using abstract concepts
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differential diagnosis
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identification of condition as distinct from all similar conditions
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chlorpromazine (Thorazine)
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the first drugs found to relieve the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs
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drug that relieves schizophrenia
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phenothiazines
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class of antipsychotic drugs that includes chlorpromazine
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butyrophenones
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class of antipsychotic drugs that includes haloperidol
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