Jump to ContentJump to Main Navigation
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, Second Edition, second editionA Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals$
Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content.
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, Second Edition, second edition: A Comprehensive Resource for Consumers, Families, and Helping Professionals

Rachel Miller and Susan Mason

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780231150415

Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015

DOI: 10.7312/columbia/9780231150415.001.0001

Show Summary Details
Page of

PRINTED FROM COLUMBIA SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE (www.columbia.universitypressscholarship.com). (c) Copyright University of Minnesota Press, 2022. All Rights Reserved. An individual user may print out a PDF of a single chapter of a monograph in CUPSO for personal use.date: 04 July 2022

What Is Schizophrenia?

What Is Schizophrenia?

Chapter:
(p.38) 4 What Is Schizophrenia?
Source:
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, Second Edition, second edition
Author(s):

Rachel Miller

Susan E. Mason

Publisher:
Columbia University Press
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231150415.003.0004

This chapter describes schizophrenia and its symptoms in more detail. Schizophrenia is a disease of the brain that affects about one percent of the population, usually occurring between adolescence and young adulthood. Its symptoms vary, but they are by nature disruptive to brain functions, and can include such issues as delusions, slow or confused thinking and movements, hallucinations, and so on. These symptoms can be classified into three categories: positive, negative, and cognitive. Positive symptoms are the presence of sensations, beliefs, and behaviors that would not normally occur. Negative symptoms are characterized by a lack of important abilities, usually those dealing with motivation and socialization. Finally, cognitive symptoms refer to difficulties with concentration and memory.

Keywords:   symptoms, disease of the brain, positive symptoms, negative symptoms, cognitive symptoms, schizophrenia

Columbia Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.

Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.

If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.

To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .