Schizophrenia

SCHIZOPHRENIA Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that affects approximately one percent of the population. One out of every hundred people will at some point be diagnosed as schizophrenic. This syndrome was first described as a single disorder by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. He called it dementia praecox, dementia referring to intellectual deterioration and praecox to the fact that the symptoms first occur early in life. Later Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler renamed the disorder Schizophrenia …

…causes and treatment of this mental disease. I. What is schizophrenia and how it was named. A. The symptoms of schizophrenia. B. The positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. a. The effects of schizophrenia. II. Types of schizophrenia. A. Paranoid B. Hebephrenic C. Catatonic D. Simple III. How did this disease come to existence. A. What causes this disease a. Genetic factors. b. Brain Abnormality. c. Environmental factors d. Heredity B. Treatment of Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia