Schizophrenia

Symptoms:

• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Avolition
• Apathy
• Anhedonia
• Asociality
• Affective flattening
• Alogia
• Behaviour issues occurs mainly due to neurochemical disturbances in brain. Other contributory factors being neurodevelopmental abnormalities, psychological and environmental stressors.
• Left untreated leads to severe disorganization and cognitive decline and increases the risk of violence, homicide and suicide.
• Disorganization of speech

Diagnosis

Continuous signs and symptom of disturbance should be there for, at least 6 months (DSM) or 1 month (ICD).

Treatment

• Pharmacological (Antipsychotics)
• Non pharmacological intervention
• ECT