Can you define and describe schizophrenia?

Brain disease: As schizophrenia is developing, brain cells disappear. Eventually the person shows withdrawal, strange thinking, inappropriate emotions, perhaps hears voices, and loses much of their previous ability to function as an adult; they can be a danger to self or others. It is a cruel disease and especially hard on caregivers who feel frustrated and unappreciated; the disease is no one's fault.

Reality Testing loss: Schizophrenia includes, paranoia; delusions auditory and visual hallucinations; disorganized thought process, disorganized speech; disorganized behavior;alogia; avolition; disturbance of psychomotor activity, eg. Catatonic. These symptoms should last for 6 months or more, causing significant impairment in social, occupational and other areas, and not caused by use of drugs, medical conditions, et.

A thought disorder: Schizophrenia is a chronic disorder, mainly a thought disorder. According to dsmiv-tr, it is characterized by paranoia, delusions, auditory & visual hallucination, disorganized thought process, disorganized speech (derailment) grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. Flat affect, alogia or avolition. Significant dysfunction, lasting for greater than 6 months with at least 1 mo. Of symptoms.

Hallucinations: By definition, schizophrenia is about psychosis. Psychosis means the patient is getting external stimuli from the environment through one or more of his or her five senses, that does not objectively exist. In other words there are auditory,visual, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile hallucinations that can be experienced by the patient. Auditory hallucinations, however, are the most common.

Schizophrenia sympto: Symptoms are disorganized thinking/speech such as loosing train of thought or words incoherent , auditory hallucinations, bizarre delusions or delusions of persecution, social withdrawal, poor hygiene, lack of motivation, poor judgement/attention/executive functions.