schizophrenia spectrum
collocation in Englishmeaningsofschizophreniaandspectrum
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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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spectrum
noun[C]
uk/ˈspek.trəm/us/ˈspek.trəm/
the set of colours into which a beam of light can be separated, or a range of waves, such as light waves or ...
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Theschizophreniaspectrumis considered here to include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and paranoid personality disorder.
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They are likely to meet criteria for personality disorders within theschizophreniaspectrumor be considered to have subclinical features of spectrum disorders.
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Fish et al. (1992) diagnosed at least 6 of these patients at adulthood as having severeschizophreniaspectrumdisorders and one as having schizophrenia.
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All subjects met criteria for aschizophreniaspectrumdisorder.
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Genetic liability forschizophreniaspectrumdisorder and an adoptive family rearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.
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Those with less acute disorders in theschizophreniaspectrummay share biological vulnerabilities leading to similar but milder declines in function.
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We used the more inclusive diagnostic groupingschizophreniaspectrumdisorders to increase sample size for analyses.
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There are many sorts of overlap between affective illness and theschizophreniaspectrum.
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Nine subjects were excluded as they did not have schizophrenia,schizophreniaspectrumor bipolar affective disorder, and one because of being too psychiatrically unwell.
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The sample included seven adoptees withschizophreniaspectrumdisorders, but a separate analysis to predict them was non-significant.
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Of those patients for whom a 1-year follow-up diagnosis was available, 80 % had a diagnosis within theschizophreniaspectrumof disorders.
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