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The diagnosis of schizophrenia, a psychotic disorder, is based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the World Health Organization 's International Classification of Diseases (ICD). [1] Clinical assessment of schizophrenia is carried out by a mental health ...
Pseudoneurotic schizophrenia is a postulated mental disorder categorized by the presence of two or more symptoms of mental illness such as anxiety, hysteria, and phobic or obsessive-compulsive neuroses. It is often acknowledged as a personality disorder. Patients generally display salient anxiety symptoms that disguise an underlying psychotic ...
Disorganized schizophrenia, or hebephrenia, was a subtype of schizophrenia prior to 2013. Subtypes of schizophrenia were no longer recognized as separate conditions in the DSM 5 , published in 2013. The disorder is no longer listed in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases ( ICD-11 ).
Schizophreniform disorder is a type of mental illness that is characterized by psychosis and closely related to schizophrenia.Both schizophrenia and schizophreniform disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV-TR), have the same symptoms and essential features except for two differences: the level of functional impairment and the duration of symptoms.
Schizoaffective disorder is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal thought processes and an unstable mood. [ 4][ 5] This diagnosis requires symptoms of both schizophrenia ( psychosis) and a mood disorder: either bipolar disorder or depression. [ 4][ 5] The main criterion is the presence of psychotic symptoms for at least two weeks without ...
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [ 17][ 7] characterized by hallucinations (typically hearing voices ), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [ 10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [ 7] Symptoms develop gradually and typically begin during young adulthood and are never resolved. [ 3][ 10] There is no objective diagnostic test ...
Bouffée délirante (BD) is an acute and transient psychotic disorder. [ 1] It is a uniquely French psychiatric diagnostic term with a long history in France [ 2] and various French speaking nations: Caribbean, e.g., Haiti, Guadeloupe, Antilles and Francophone Africa. [ 3] The term BD was originally coined and described by Valentin Magnan (1835 ...
The ICD-9 simple-type schizophrenia description: A psychosis in which there is insidious development of oddities of conduct, inability to meet the demands of society, and decline in total performance. Delusions and hallucinations are not in evidence and the condition is less obviously psychotic than are the hebephrenic, catatonic and paranoid ...