About Schizophrenic Disorders
Providing general information on schizophrenic disorders, this section also describes the symptoms employed by psychiatrists as diagnostic criteria for disorders such as paranoid schizophrenia and catatonic schizophrenia.
Please see our separate note on Treatment, Mental Disorders and Basic Science for important caveats on the role and definition of diagnostic criteria.
What are the Schizophrenic Disorders?
As in the case of many other forms of psychological distress, the ICD and DSM take different approaches to diagnosis and classification. We provide the complete documentation from each approach here:
DSM Approach to Schizophrenic Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophreniform Disorder
- Schizoaffective Disorder
- Schizoid Personality Disorder
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
ICD Approach to Schizophrenic Disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Paranoid Schizophrenia
- Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
- Catatonic Schizophrenia
- Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
- Post-Schizophrenic Depression
- Residual Schizophrenia
- Simple Schizophrenia
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- Cannabis Use, Psychosis Risk and Basic Science
- Free Musical Collage from Guest Contributor Kathryn Keats
- Gene Associated with Schizophrenia Linked to Intelligence
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