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    release. A body of work by various professionals, for instance, Rahman, Childers and Therrien (1961), Friedel (1986), suggests that a great many patients, whose schizophrenia cannot be treated with medication, are better when they are treated with antipsychotic…

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    Abstract For the study, the researchers concentrated on the microbiome of the oropharynx, the area of throat located at the back of the mouth, including the back third of the tongue, soft palate, tonsils and side and back walls of the throat. Research prior from the team pinpointed differences in one facet of throat bacteria between people with schizophrenia and people without the disorder. In the new study, the researchers focused on the complete totality of microorganisms and their collective…

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    1) Natural Selection: is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. 2) This can be seen in a modern example of natural selection where: Resistance to antibiotics is increased through the survival of individuals that are: o immune to the effects of the antibiotic o whose offspring then inherit the resistance, creating a new population of resistant bacteria. Thus, natural selection constantly removes those genetic alleles…

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    Chronic depression, also referred to as dysthymia or chronic depression is a mood disorder. Chronic depression is defined any feelings of hopelessness and unhappiness that persists for more than two weeks, and it is different from psychotic depression. With psychotic depression, the illness is accompanied by some form of psychosis, such as delusions, detachment from reality, and hallucinations. In addition to emotional disturbances, chronic depression is also like to sensory disturbances, such…

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    Coping and Schizophrenia Introduction Schizophrenia is a serious neurobiological brain disease that is classified as a psychotic disorder. The word schizophrenia is a combination of two Greek words, schizein, “to split,” and phren, “mind” (Stuart, 2013). It is believed a split of the cognitive and emotional aspects of the personality occurs in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia has affected numerous of individuals and is more prevalent than other common health illnesses. According to Stuart,…

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    What Is Schizophrenia?

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    Schizophrenia is a disabling mental illness, which can affect individual’s thoughts, perceptions, emotions, and behaviors. (100 facts about schizo). The term comes from the greek with schizo meaning “splitting” and phrenia meaning “of the mind”. This disorder makes it hard for a person to differentiate between real and imagined experiences. It weakens their abilities to think logically, express normal emotions, and behave properly in social situations. For many individuals with schizophrenia,…

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    There are a lot of different disorders, but schizophrenia may be one of the most popular. Schizophrenia is defined as a long-term psychological disorder involving a collapse within our thoughts, our feelings, and our behavior. Schizophrenia have different types of disorders, recovery and rehabilitation methods, and signs of the disorder. There are different types of schizophrenia that a person can encounter. According to Mental Health America, Paranoid, disorganized, catatonic, residual are some…

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    The Cause Of Schizophrenia

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    Chapter 3.1 – What Causes Schizophrenia? We can never get too much research for our production project since we’re trying to teach Schizophrenia in an artistic, abstract way. So if we are trying to teach it, we must know everything there is to know about it, like the cause. However, even now the cause of Schizophrenia is unclear. The NHS website states that ‘Most experts believe the condition is caused by combination of genetic and environmental factors’. Because of this lone reason we decided…

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    cognitive domains have been identified by the National Institute of Mental Health Measurement and Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in Schizophrenia (NIMH-MATRICS) to be impaired in patients with schizophrenia including social cognition (2-4). Antipsychotic…

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    diagnosed with psychological disorders with the help of prescription medication. According to Lisa Hartling (2012) in her article titled Antipsychotics in Adults with Schizophrenia: Comparative Effectiveness of First-Generation Versus Second-Generation Medications, there are 20 commercial first generation antipsychotics (FGA) and second generation antipsychotics (SGA) that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (Lisa Hartling, 2012, p. 498). The research that was provided…

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