schizophrenia

(noun)

a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion

Related Terms

Examples of schizophrenia in the following topics:

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Mental Illnesses

    • Schizophrenia and depression are just two examples of mental illnesses caused by a disorder of the nervous system.
    • A more detailed discussion of two mental illnesses, schizophrenia and major depression, is given below.
    • Schizophrenia is a serious and often-debilitating mental illness affecting one percent of the population in the United States.
    • Symptoms of schizophrenia may be characterized as either "negative" (deficit symptoms) or "positive".
    • Positive symptoms are those that most individuals do not normally experience, but are present in people with schizophrenia.

  • Chromosomal Structural Rearrangements

    • Notably, specific translocations have been associated with several cancers and with schizophrenia.