Schizophrenia
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: PW195
Diagnosis: Schizophrenia
US Patients: 1.1% of the population;Life expectancy decreased by 20 years; sedentary life leads to heart attacks;
World Patients: 20 million total cases; 16.7 Million-disabled due to schizophrenia, 75% unemployed; Violence-6X population; with alcohol-24X.
Sex Ratio: M+;F
Age Onset: M-early 20’s; F-late 20’s and post-menopausal in women. Psychosis (reality-unreality) often preceeds schizophrenia.
Brain Area: dopamine controls positive motivations; genes CRHR1 and CRHBP relate to suicidal behavior, several brain areas involved
Symptoms: Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, withdrawal, apathy, weak emotions, word salad; cognitively poorer generally
Progression: Usually non-violent; more likely to be victims,unless using alcohol or drugs.
Causes: 70-80% heritable; raised in city, older parents, drugs or pot used as teenager, several factors during pregnancy; childhood traumas
Medications: antipsychotics, hospitalization to stop harm to self or others, many create restlessness, muscle-jerking, weight gain
Therapies: exercise, CBTs, other talking therapies, along with medications, ½improve, some get well; the other half, life-time involvement.
Youtube Video: How Paranoid Schizophrenia Impacts My Life
Youtube Video: What is Schizophrenia?
Amazon or Library Book: Surviving Schizophrenia
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Support Group: sczaction.org 1-800-493-2094
(Schizophrenia Action Alliance)
Contact your local Social Security office for possible Disability Benefits under their Disability Determination Services,
Section 12.03.
4 CURRENT ARTICLES
FROM PUBMED
The world-wide medical research
reports chosen for each diagnosis
Clicking each title opens the
PubMed article’s summary-abstract.
- Deciding to Be Left Alone After Being Left Out: Behavioral Responses to Social Exclusion in Schizophreniaby Lauren P Weittenhiller on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: People with schizophrenia experience frequent social exclusion in daily life, and this predicts withdrawal responses to social exclusion. Findings provide initial evidence of vulnerability to a cycle of exclusion and withdrawal.
- Poor self-reported sleep is associated with prolonged white matter T2 relaxation in psychotic disordersby Umit Haluk Yesilkaya on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: Our results highlight the connection between poor sleep and WM abnormalities in psychotic disorders. Future research using objective sleep measures and neuroimaging techniques suitable to probe free water is needed to further our insight into this relationship.
- Promoting Evidence-Based Tobacco Cessation Treatment in Community Mental Health Clinics: Results of a Pilot Implementation Study: Promouvoir le traitement de sevrage tabagique fondé sur des données probantes dans les cliniques communautaires de santé mentale : résultats d'une étude pilote de mise en œuvreby Faith Dickerson on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians at CMHCs were engaged by and participated in training and implementation activities around smoking cessation practices which they then delivered to a substantial portion of clients in their care. The results of this study provide important data for the future planning of testing implementation strategies to scale up tobacco cessation treatment in this population in outpatient mental health settings.
- The role of anti-inflammatory diets and supplementation in metabolic syndrome and symptom remission in adults with schizophrenia: a systematic reviewby Elizabeth Suschana on January 22, 2025
CONCLUSION: It is important to consider that people with schizophrenia may experience common external barriers that hinder adherence to dietary interventions. These findings underscore the need for larger trials with standardized dietary protocols and consistent metabolic and symptom outcome measures in order to better understand the potential role of anti-inflammatory interventions in this population.