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How many years could schizophrenia reduce your life by?
Schizophrenia reduces life expectancy by 12 to 15 years.
What is childhood schizophrenia?
Typically characterized by delusions, paranoia, and auditory and/or visual hallucinations, not to be confused with autism. Difficult to diagnose because of a child's imagination, and differentiated from schizophrenia- which has an early adult-hood onset. May also have a separate etiology as psychosis in adulthood and adolescence. See the DSM-IV for more info.
When was Rosa Parks diagnosed with progressive dementia?
Rosa Parks had dementia for a few years before she died and died with it
Is there child schizophrenia?
Yes. Children as young as 6 years old have been reported to exhibit symptoms of schizophrenia. However, most cases of schizophrenia are shown in the mid to late teens.
What age do girls start hitting schizophrenia?
In males, onset is usually between 18-21 years old. In females, onset of schizophrenia is usually between 20-25 years old. It is a lifelong disease, but it can be significantly ameliorated with a combination of anti-psychotic medications and family as well as social supports.
What is 7 months in fish years?
57 years cause they have dementia from when there born.
Can alcohol cause dementia?
Actually, there is something called alcohol dementia that is caused by excessive alcohol intake over many years.
Can electric shock therapy cause dementia in later life?
My mother in law had shock therapy about 16 years ago and now has dementia at 62
Why is a hypothesis used to diagnosed and treat schizoprenia?
When people have schizophrenia (a chemical imbalance in the brain) doctors and good councilors (three years at college) give the patients drugs to deal with the problem.These drugs work on the receptors and subdue the patients..that is.they stop mood swings and the person from being elevated or depressed..now this is the hypothesis used to diagnose and treat the condition...they also give bad side effects including death...the hypothesis is the statement (chemical imbalances in the brain) When all that is needed is a kind word and a shoulder to lean on for a while....Hypothesis Hy*poth"e*sis\, n.; pl. Hypotheses. [NL., fr. Gr. ? foundation, supposition, fr. ? to place under, ? under + ? to put. See Hypo-, Thesis.]1. A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypotheses than those of the human imagination. --J. S. Mill. 2. (Natural Science) A tentative theory or supposition provisionally adopted to explain certain facts, and to guide in the investigation of others; hence, frequently called a working hypothesis./ˌskɪtsəˈfriniə, -ˈfrinyə/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [skit-suh-free-nee-uh, -freen-yuh] Show IPA Pronunciation-noun 1. Psychiatry. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. 2. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.dementia praecox - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosispsychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distortedborderline schizophrenia, latent schizophrenia - schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophreniacatatonic schizophrenia, catatonic type schizophrenia, catatonia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by a tendency to remain in a fixed stuporous state for long periods; the catatonia may give way to short periods of extreme excitementdisorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutionsparanoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia, paraphrenic schizophrenia - a form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy); symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity; unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manneracute schizophrenic episode, reactive schizophrenia - schizophrenia of abrupt onset and relatively short duration (a few weeks or months)
What quality of life does a dog who is blind and deaf and has dementia?
10-20 years
A disease that can produce dementia is?
While Alzheimer's disease is the most common type of dementia, there are also many other forms, including vascular and mixed dementia. Causes of dementia are mainly produced by inflammation, disease or injury. On such events neurons may die and dementia is the result. Now, scientists believe that a combination of hereditary, environmental, lifestyle are mostly at work. The more neurons die, more intense will be the symptoms of dementia. This disease is currently being researched allover the world, and may be that within the next 10 years it will be conducted to a satisfactory solution.
Who was the first to have schizophrenia?
Nobody knows. The condition has existed for thousands of years, way before records existed.
