Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder that can affect all aspects of a patient’s life and lead to suicide (APA, 2013). Because of this, psychiatrists often prescribe antipsychotic medications to treat symptoms (Chien, Mui, Gray, & Cheung, 2016). However, many patients do not adhere to the prescribed treatment, resulting in a multitude of problems including recurrence of symptoms and hospitalization (MacEwan et al., 2016). Adherence therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which patients discuss…

“A Beautiful Mind” is based on the true story of John Forbes Nash. Nash was a brilliant mathematician who won a Nobel prize for his study of mathematics. In the movie John Forbes Nash; who was portrayed by Russel Crowe, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. At the beginning of the film John Forbes Nash starts his career at Princeton University as a mathematics student where he was well known for his intelligence. Nash is an arrogant, awkward socially-inept mathematics student, who spent most of…

was found in schizophrenic patients (N=12) versus the control group (N=9). The next ERG study was in 1992. While they did not find a significant difference in ERG tracing between their schizophrenia patients (N=9) versus their control group (N=13), they did notice a decreased cone b-wave in 6 of their schizophrenia patients with a history of sun gazing. Since then, there have been more studies using the ERG as a probe for retinal disease in schizophrenic patients. A summary of these studies is…

history of disabilities, types of disabilities, assessments used when diagnosing a disability, and ways to provide effective treatments. This paper will focus on three types of assessments used for a person who is diagnosed with the mental illness schizophrenia. The assessments that will be discussed are the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale…

character consults for on these cases is a former student of the professors. The main character, Daniel Pierce is a neuroscience professor with a M.D. and a PH.D. Pierce’s interest in neuroscience derives from his own long history of paranoid schizophrenia. With a keen perception into human behavior he uses subtle clues to help Kate Moretti, the FBI agent…

hallucinations. In 1994, John wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his groundbreaking work in mathematics (Nash, J. F., Jr.). John does not fully recover from his disorder, as that is not usually projected for Schizophrenia. In most cases, the prognosis of Schizophrenia depicts the prodromal phase prior to twenty years of age and rapid deterioration in the early twenties to thirties. This tapers off into a chronic/residual phase during the forties and fifties, which is seen to be true…

to be struck earlier, more severely and slightly more often (Aleman et al., 2003; Picchioni & Murray, 2007). For some, schizophrenia will appear suddenly, seemingly as a reaction to stress. For others, as was the case with Maxine, schizophrenia develops gradually, emerging from a long history of social inadequacy and poor school performance (MacCabe et al., 2008). Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain manifest in symptoms of the mind.” (p.…

their parents for having schizophrenia, but as well as not being able to help them control their parents’ episodes. Growing up with a parent who is schizophrenic creates problems during childhood and adulthood, consequently causing emotional, mental, or even physical trauma. Under the circumstances of growing up with a parent that has schizophrenia can cause mental issues to form. With the risk of not only establishing the schizophrenic…

DID can become severe and also produce symptoms relating to other mental related illnesses like Schizophrenia. Result show in several of studies provided in the journal the Neurobiology of Dissociative Disorders. Studies provided showed a relation to most current findings to Schizophrenia. Patients with Schizophrenia shared a common symptom to Dissociative Personality Disorder. Regular Schizophrenia patients have auditory hallucinations, withdrawal thoughts, thoughts out loud, delusional…

self-stigma but also social stigma (Corrigan, Patrick W., and Deepa Rao). To treat certain mental illnesses like schizophrenia, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and severe depression antipsychotics drugs are used. The problem is that they have numerous negative side affects, and pharmaceutical companies have not been able to make many advances in treating schizophrenia; furthermore, increase in suicide…