Definition:
A chronic illness that causes altered perceptions of the world is called schizophrenia and disorganized schizophrenia is a subtype of such disorder. People who have disorganized schizophrenia display grossly disorganized behavior, disorganized thinking and an absent or inappropriate emotional expression.
Diagnosis:
To make a diagnosis of schizophrenia, there are no blood or brain-imaging tests that can be used since diagnosis of any schizophrenia subtype may change even if the disorganized symptoms may dominate the picture at the time of initial assessment.
Treatment:
People with disorganized schizophrenia don't return to their previous functional abilities without treatment while episodes of symptoms may vary in intensity and duration. The disorder can be managed by coordinated treatments such as individual psychotherapy that supplements drug treatment, training in social and vocational skills, antipsychotic medications that may prevent the recurrence or lessen the intensity of psychotic episodes and family group therapy.
Symptoms and Signs:
Social withdrawal, anxiety and decline in daily functional abilities and as well as unusual behaviors are the early signs and symptoms of schizophrenia which may begin gradually.
The signs and symptoms of disorganized schizophrenia include disorganized thinking, absent or inappropriate emotional expression and grossly disorganized behavior.
Additional signs and symptoms include the inability to initiate plans, hearing voices or experiencing other sensory events that aren't real (hallucinations), holding untrue beliefs about reality (delusions) and little verbal communication with other people.
Causes:
Schizophrenia results from problems with early brain development as what most researchers believe. Their studies focused on the way brain cells communicate with each other through nerve pathways, where too few or too many connections in the important pathways emotional regulation may lead to psychotic symptoms.
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