diagnosis of schizophrenia
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diagnosis
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnəʊ.sɪs/us/ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnoʊ.sɪs/
a judgment about what a particular illness or problem is, made after ...
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schizophrenia
noun[U]
uk/ˌskɪt.səˈfriː.ni.ə/us/ˌskɪt.səˈfriː.ni.ə/
a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what ...
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Moreover, patients' files were screened for possible diseases incompatible with adiagnosisofschizophrenia.
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Approximately half of the sample had received a hospitaldiagnosisofschizophreniaor paranoid psychosis.
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It is revealed that no found abnormality occurs in all people with adiagnosisofschizophrenia.
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This eliminated those cases where thediagnosisofschizophreniawas changed to non-affective psychosis, or some other category, at later admissions.
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However, information of this type is scarcely available, especially among individuals who have been extremely violent and received a primarydiagnosisofschizophrenia.
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If in doubt about adiagnosisofschizophrenia, it can be helpful to ask the patient for an explanation of such a proverb.
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Diagnosisofschizophreniaand schizophreniform (versus affective and schizoaffective) diagnosis were more common in the delayed prolonged recovery group.
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Clinicaldiagnosisofschizophreniais less reliable than a research diagnosis.
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Thirty subjects with adiagnosisofschizophreniawere thus identified.
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Furthermore, these individuals must not ever have been registered with a maindiagnosisofschizophreniaas defined above.
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Since ventricular enlargement is relatively common in schizophrenia, this finding may also help confirm thediagnosisofschizophrenia.
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A total of 94 % of the sample (n=116) had adiagnosisofschizophrenia(n=105), or schizoaffective disorder (n=11).
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The proportion with an initialdiagnosisofschizophreniawas slightly higher in the group successfully followed up (43 %) than in the remainder (31 %).
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This participant had adiagnosisofschizophreniaand was classified as having persecutory delusions.
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Out-patients between the ages of 18 and 55 years with adiagnosisofschizophrenia(n=34) or schizoaffective disorder (n=13) were recruited from a community mental health center.
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Even when the analyses were restricted to the subsample of 203 patients with adiagnosisofschizophreniaor schizophreniform, the magnitude of these associations remained relatively constant.
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We also anticipated that if the records were to provide more detailed reports of presenting symptoms, many cases with a suspecteddiagnosisofschizophreniawould have this diagnosis confirmed.
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Thirdly, it is also possible that clinicians in rural areas may be more conservative with regard to thediagnosisofschizophreniathan those in urban areas.
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Among those with adiagnosisofschizophrenia, there were more males than females, compared with the gender ratio among other psychotic disorders (not significant, x2=1.32, df=1, p=0.25).
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