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latent schizophrenia — a type of schizophrenia characterized by clear symptoms of schizophrenia but no history of a psychotic schizophrenic episode; it includes conditions that have been called ambulatory, borderline, prepsychotic, pseudoneurotic, and… … Medical dictionary
Schizophrenia — One of several brain diseases whose symptoms that may include loss of personality (flat affect), agitation, catatonia, confusion, psychosis, unusual behavior, and withdrawal. The illness usually begins in early adulthood. The causes of… … Medical dictionary
Latent inhibition — is a process by which exposure to a stimulus of little or no consequence prevents conditioned associations with that stimulus being formed. The ability to disregard or even inhibit formation of memory, by preventing associative learning of… … Wikipedia
borderline schizophrenia — noun schizophrenia characterized by mild symptoms or by some preexisting tendency to schizophrenia • Syn: ↑latent schizophrenia • Hypernyms: ↑schizophrenia, ↑schizophrenic disorder, ↑schizophrenic psychosis, ↑dementia praecox … Useful english dictionary
Causes of schizophrenia — Schizophrenia is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental disorder characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality and by significant social or occupational dysfunction. A person experiencing schizophrenia is… … Wikipedia
borderline schizophrenia — latent s … Medical dictionary
prepsychotic schizophrenia — latent s … Medical dictionary
Dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia — The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia or the dopamine hypothesis of psychosis is a model attributing symptoms of schizophrenia (like psychoses) to a disturbed and hyperactive dopaminergic signal transduction. The model draws evidence from the… … Wikipedia
Schizotypy — is a psychological concept which describes a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences related to psychosis and in particular, schizophrenia.This is in contrast to a categorical view of psychosis, where psychosis is considered to… … Wikipedia
dementia praecox — noun any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact • Syn: ↑schizophrenia, ↑schizophrenic disorder, ↑schizophrenic psychosis • Derivationally… … Useful english dictionary
