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| A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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Term
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Definition
| False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders |
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| Symptoms & subtypes of schizophrenia |
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Definition
-Hallucinations, talk in disorganized and deluded ways,inappropriate laughter, tears or rage.
-Paranoid, Disorganized Catatonic, undifferentiated residual |
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| Neural & genetic correlates of schizophrenia |
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Definition
-Dopamine overactivity
-Abnormally low activity in frontal lobes
-decline in the brain waves
-Fetal-virus infections |
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