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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder where people often have delusions, hallucinations and trouble thinking correctly. It is a brain disorder that affects a lot of people. People with schizophrenia believe that other people are reading their minds or control of their thoughts. This terrifies people with this disorder and can make them become withdrawn. People diagnosed with schizophrenia have issues keeping a job and taking care of themselves. They usually rely on others for help. You cannot…

Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder that affects one percent of the population. When a family member or friend is diagnosed, it changes not only the patients life but the people close to him as well. It almost always affects almost all of the five senses, with the most common symptoms being hallucination, paranoia, with unorganized thought and speech processes. Schizophrenia, although uncommon, is a very serious disease with tragic effects, and there is very little…

The following is a case study of a male client, Jim a 27 year old male. Jim has a very supportive mother and father by the name of Consuela and Roberto; he is also the second youngest of 4 brothers. He has reported that both his grandmother and mother have both suffered from mental illness. His grandmother’s mental illness is unknown, but his mother was hospitalized for mental illness after one of her children was stillborn. She suffered from the possibility of a few different illnesses, such as…

Acoustic reflexes are contractions of the stapedius muscle in the middle ear. This reflex occurs when a loud sound is presented to the ear causing the tympanic membrane to stiffen and cause a change in immittance (Martin & Clark, 2012). When measuring the acoustic reflex threshold, we are measuring the softest sound that can cause a reflex of the stapedius muscle as well as the duration of time needed for the reflex to decay. The reflex is presented as a deflection, or a curve/dip, on the…

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY CIA I CASE STUDY: THE GENAIN QUADRUPLETS Sneha Ganguly- 1313249 Keerthana Ullas- 1313231 Hitha Maureen- 1313228 Sneha Elizabeth- 1313249 THE CASE STUDY The Genain quadruplets (born in 1930) are a set of identical quadruplet sisters. All four of them developed schizophrenia, suggesting a major genetic factor to the cause of the disease. The pseudonym Genain, used to protect the identity of the family, comes from the Greek, meaning dire birth. The sisters were given the…

Schizophrenia: Schizophrenia is an illness which affects the normal functioning on the brain. This essay is aiming to outline the treatment of this mental illness and how it has changed over time. Roughly 51 million people worldwide are burdened with this condition. It interferes with a person’s ability to think, feel and act in many ways such as struggling to think realistically. This means people with the psychotic illness will experience disordered thinking. The thoughts one has everyday…

The main measures for interview is established by good rapport, respect patient privacy, recognize face value, move to the patient's field of vision, SOLER as a reminder to sit directly, have an open posture, lean forward, make eye contact and relax, ask open-ended questions, one thing at a time, listen, culture matters, and avoid the medical terminology. This writer sets into view to interview an African-American gentleman with a two years history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…

“A Beautiful Mind” was the title of Sylvia Nasar’s biography (and eventual award-winning movie) of the famous mathematician John Nash. But despite his “Beautiful Mind” that eventually won him a Nobel Prize in 1994, Nash has been tormented by Schizophrenia since the late 1950’s. As one of the most famous people to be suffering from this disorder, Along with depression, Schizophrenia is one of two disorders that have been found across our planet, in every culture. Schizophrenia is characterized…

Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that causes its victim to experience symptoms that include but are not limited to, hearing and seeing things, delusions, disorganized behavior or speech. However, there are many different symptoms for this disease and they vary from person to person. Schizophrenia is all over the world (about 1% of the world to be exact) but it is defined differently from nation to nation (Shon W. Lewis, 1998, pp. 23-24). It also effects men and women almost equally, being…

People with severe mental health conditions have increased rates of premature deaths and reduced life span compared to the general population. Studies clearly indicated that the life expectancy of New Zealanders with severe mental illness (SMI) and addictions has considerably reduced by up to twenty-five years compared to the general population (Newcomer, 2007). Research clearly highlighted that cardio-metabolic factors have an enormous impact in contributing to a significant increase in…