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Project Overview. SCHIZOPHRENIA. Project Name Company Name Presenter Name. Željka Modrić. WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA?. psychiatric diagnosis mental illness social problem health problem. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS. hallucinations delusions disorganized thinking and speech paranoia

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  1. Project Overview SCHIZOPHRENIA Project Name Company Name Presenter Name Željka Modrić

  2. WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA? • psychiatric diagnosis • mental illness • social problem • health problem

  3. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS • hallucinations • delusions • disorganized thinking and speech • paranoia • social isolation • etc...

  4. delusions auditory hallucinations thought disorders alogia anhedonia asociality avolition POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE

  5. CAUSES • Genetic • Prenatal • Social • Substance abuse

  6. MECHANISMS • Psychological • Neural

  7. DIAGNOSIS • CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS • SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION • DURATION

  8. TREATMENT • MEDICATION -typical antipsychotics -atypical antipsychotics • PSYCHOTHERAPY

  9. INTERESTING FACTS • John Nash - Mathematician/Nobel Prize Winner • Albert Einstein's son - Eduard Einstein • Dr. James Watson's son(Dr. Watson is co-discoverer of DNA and Nobel Prize winner) • Alan Alda's Mother(Alan Alda is the famous TV actor from the series MASH) • Andy Goram - Scottish Soccer Player/Goal Keeper • Lionel Aldridge - Superbowl-winning Football Player • Syd Barrett of the band Pink Floyd • Alexander "Skip" Spence and Bob Mosley - both members of the 1960's rock group Moby Grape (and Jefferson Airplane for Skip Spence) • James Beck Gordon (Jim Gordon) - James Gordon had been, quite simply, one of the greatest drummers of his time • Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln (past-President of the United States)

  10. REFERENCES • www.schizophrenia.com • Laboratory of Neuro imaging, UCLA • Ljubomir Hotujac i suradnici: “Psihijatrija”, Medicinska naklada, 2006.

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