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Understanding Schizophrenia: Types, Symptoms, and Causes

Schizophrenia involves disordered thoughts, confused perceptions, and lost contact with reality. Symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, and inappropriate emotions. Types like Paranoid, Catatonic, and Disorganized exhibit specific characteristics. Biological influences and environmental factors can contribute to its development.

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Understanding Schizophrenia: Types, Symptoms, and Causes

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  1. Schizophrenia Involves disordered thoughts.

  2. Schizophrenia • Involves confused and disordered thoughts and perceptions. Lost contact with reality • May experience… • Delusions: false beliefs maintained in the face of contrary evidence. • Hallucinations: perceptions in the absence of corresponding sensation. • Disturbances of Affect: emotions that are inappropriate for the circumstances • Deterioration in normal movement • Decline in previous levels of functioning • Diverted attention

  3. Types of Schizophrenia • Paranoid Type • Involves hallucinations and delusions • Catatonic Type • Motionless for long period of time • Disorganized Type • Incoherent language, inappropriate emotions • Remission Type • Symptoms are gone/or may still be there, but not significant • Undifferentiated Type • Encompasses all, deterioration of daily functioning, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotions and though disorders.

  4. Causes of schizophrenia • Biological Influences • Genetics • Epigenetic (factors that affect a cell, but not DNA) • Environmental Factors • Biochemistry and Physiology • Chemical imbalances in brain • Family and interaction • Being a part of unhealthy family may contribute to the problems. • Diathesis-stress hypothesis: individual may have inherited a predisposition toward Schizophrenia. But, for Schizophrenia to develop they must be exposed to an environment with certain stressors.

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