Schizophrenia/Related Articles: Difference between revisions

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Neuroscience [r]: The study of nervous systems and their components. ^[e]
Medicine [r]: The study of health and disease of the human body. ^[e]
Psychiatry [r]: The subfield of health sciences concerned with mental disorders. ^[e]
Psychosis [r]: A brain disorder characterized by severely distorted sensory perception. ^[e]

Delusion [r]: A belief with no basis in reality, or shared with a person's culture, that persists despite evidence to the contrary. ^[e]
Hallucination [r]: Perception of objects, sounds, or sensations having no demonstrable reality, usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs. ^[e]
Positive symptom [r]: Add brief definition or description
Negative symptom [r]: Add brief definition or description

Autism [r]: Developmental disability that results from a disorder of the human central nervous system. ^[e]
Bipolar disorder [r]: A mental illness of the subtype mood disorders which is also known as manic-depressive illness, characterised by the occurrence of manic or hypomanic states alternating with bouts of depression. ^[e]
Dementia [r]: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. ^[e]
Depression [r]: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Depression (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.
Dyslexia [r]: Add brief definition or description
Mental illness [r]: A disease of the brain and mind. ^[e]
Schizotypy [r]: Add brief definition or description
Schizoaffective disorder [r]: Add brief definition or description
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder [r]: Behavior disorder originating in childhood in which the essential features are signs of developmentally inappropriate inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. ^[e]

Gyrification [r]: The folding process during brain development, or the extent of folding. ^[e]
Cerebral cortex [r]: External tissue layer within the vertebrate brain, ensheathed by the pia mater; home to the nerve cell bodies; important in learning and dementia. ^[e]
Cortical thickness [r]: The combined thickness of the cerebral cortex layers. ^[e]
Cortical connectivity [r]: The degree to which different subunits of the cerebral cortex are linked to each other via nerve fibres. ^[e]

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 ==Biographies==
 {{r|Emil Kraepelin}}
+{{r|Eugen Bleuler}}
+{{r|Kurt Schneider}}