Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide
Schizophrenia
DEFINITION
- A disorder characterized by psychotic symptoms, including hallucinations, delusions, or formal thought disorder, and accompanied by disorganized behaviors, negative symptoms, and/or a decline in premorbid functioning
- Negative symptoms: affective flattening, alogia (poverty of speech), anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure), avolition (lack of motivation), apathy (lack of interest), and/or social isolation[1]
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Last updated: August 2, 2017
Citation
Solazzo, Stephanie, et al. "Schizophrenia." Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide, 2017. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787043/all/Schizophrenia.
Solazzo S, Speed T, Sedlak T. Schizophrenia. Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. 2017. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787043/all/Schizophrenia. Accessed December 1, 2023.
Solazzo, S., Speed, T., & Sedlak, T. (2017). Schizophrenia. In Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787043/all/Schizophrenia
Solazzo S, Speed T, Sedlak T. Schizophrenia [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide. ; 2017. [cited 2023 December 01]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_Psychiatry_Guide/787043/all/Schizophrenia.
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