• One of the most serious psychological impairments is known as schizophrenia which severely distorts thought and action (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2004). (scirp.org)
  • The present study is set out to investigate the capability of patients with schizophrenia in doing different vocabulary tasks on second language and retaining them for a period of time. (scirp.org)
  • 2005). Schizophrenia and the Structure of Language: The Linguist's View. (scirp.org)
  • Anomalous Language Perception and Speech of Schizophrenia. (scirp.org)
  • Objective: In the vulnerability-stress concept of schizophrenia, schizophrenic patients are thought to display increased sensitivity to stress. (mssm.edu)
  • The results of this study indicate that there is an increased familial aggregation of schizophrenia, schizophrenia spectrum personality disorders and certain neurocognitive impairments, as well as an usually early age of onset of schizophrenia in those relatives who develop a schizophrenic disorder, in the relatives of probands with childhood onset schizophrenia compared to relatives of community control and adult-onset schizophrenia probands. (uclahealth.org)
  • Asarnow and colleagues are following up these results in a genetic linkage study which will attempt to identify chromo-somal regions harboring susceptibility genes for schizophrenia and/or certain neurocognitive impairment which may reflect genetic liability to schizophrenia. (uclahealth.org)
  • Significant differences were found between diagnostic groups with regard to the frequency and severity of some categories of communication impairment, but the general pattern of results supports previous suggestions that these problems are not pathognomonic of schizophrenia. (illinois.edu)
  • Examining the impairment of these abilities in patients with schizophrenia has the potential to elucidate the neurophysiological regions involved in social cognition and may also have the potential to aid rehabilitation. (bgu.ac.il)
  • The impairment in social cognition in schizophrenia stems from deficiencies in several mechanisms, including the ability to think analytically and to process emotion information and cues. (bgu.ac.il)
  • Diagnosis of schizophrenia was associated with elevated score on FCQ as compared to bipolar disorders mainly in the areas of perception, thought, language and motility as well as total FCQ scores. (ejpsychiatry.com)
  • Individuals with schizophrenia show a broad range of language impairments, similar to those observed in reading disability (RD). Genetic linkage and association studies of RD have identified a number of candidate RD-genes that are associated with neuronal migration. (nih.gov)
  • The aim of the current study was to extend these structural findings and to examine links between putative RD-genes and functional connectivity of language-related regions in healthy controls (n = 27) and schizophrenia (n = 28). (nih.gov)
  • Thus, RD-genes influence functional connectivity in language-related regions, but no RD-gene uniquely affected network function in schizophrenia as compared to controls. (nih.gov)
  • Thus these RD-genes may exert a more important influence on structure rather than function of language-related networks in schizophrenia. (nih.gov)
  • It has become clear that both autism and schizophrenia exist on spectrums (i.e., all of us have some level of autistic and schizophrenic traits). (creativitypost.com)
  • Hydrocephalus ( 7 ), increased ventricular size ( 8 ), and cognitive impairment ( 9 ) have also been noted in some persons with schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. (cdc.gov)
  • Schizophrenia 1 is a mental disorder characterized by patterns of disordered thought, language, motor, and social function. (citizendium.org)
  • It is possible that six of the Galvin family children had varying degrees of predispositional vulnerability for possible schizophrenia and combined with familial and other social stresses, schizophrenic symptoms became manifest, while such vulnerabilities were either not at all a factor or were minimal enough that the other six children did not succumb to schizophrenia. (psychotherapyandculture.com)
  • There were ongoing serious battles between and among some of the boys, and as illness impacted all family members - those with schizophrenia and those without, the pressure on the non-schizophrenic parents became increasingly challenging. (psychotherapyandculture.com)
  • Hallucinogenics like mushrooms, LSD, and cannabis may trigger a schizophrenic or psychotic episode in someone who is already predisposed to schizophrenia or other mental illnesses. (springhillrecovery.com)
  • Instead of schizophrenic , use schizophrenic people or people with schizophrenia . (iu.edu)
  • When we describe someone with a specific mental health condition as "a person with schizophrenia" instead of a "a schizophrenic" we don't reduce that person's entire human identity to their schizophrenia. (legalaidwv.org)
  • 2. Mrs. R., the mother of a young schizophrenic patient, seeks you out and begins to cry. (testbankltd.com)
  • Enlargement of the ventricles and sulci was not correlated with measures of negative symptoms or neuropsychological Impairment. (umn.edu)
  • B. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. (madinamerica.com)
  • Reports from parents include improvements in cognition, receptive and expressive language, development, skin conditions, as well as reduction in behaviors, improved sleep, decreased ear infections and digestive symptoms, and more. (nourishinghope.com)
  • Overlaps with Other Neurologic Disorders Fourteen of the remaining 23 HDL patients had at least 1 first degree relative with psychiatric or movement disorders , 17 had family histories of behavioral disorders , and 20 had cognitive impairment. (symptoma.com)
  • Impact of transcranial direct current stimulation on white matter microstructure integrity in mild cognitive impairment patients according to effect modifiers as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease. (cdc.gov)
  • 3) Matrix reasoning, second-level ToM (ToM2), and irony were found to distinguish patients from controls, even when all other tasks that revealed significant impairment in the patients' performance were taken into account. (bgu.ac.il)
  • What, for instance, does clinically significant impairment in social functioning mean? (madinamerica.com)
  • We study the results of a descriptive and exploratory study, with the intent to understand the results of a 21 male schizophrenic patients interned in a Portuguese Mental Health Care Centre, evaluated with neuropsychological test. (bvsalud.org)
  • 2003). 'Functional analysis of the deficit in semantic context processes in schizophrenic patients: an event-related potentials study. (jeanpaullaurent.fr)
  • Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) tend to show impairment in switching, but not clustering, during semantic fluency tasks. (e-csd.org)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of time limits on clustering performance, and to study characteristics of semantic impairment related to clustering in PD. (e-csd.org)
  • 1943- Dr. Leo Kanner describes a childhood disorder involving social and language impairments and the presence of restricted or repetitive behaviors. (specialneedsresourceblog.com)
  • 1944- Dr. Hans Asperger reports on 4 children with a pattern of behavior he terms autistic psychopathy- behaviors include reduce empathy, difficulties with forming friendships, impairments in the ability to maintain reciprocal conversations. (specialneedsresourceblog.com)
  • In the communication domain, the SPD criteria focuses on odd speech that is vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, and over-elaborate, whereas the AD criteria focuses on abnormal non-vocal communication behaviors, such as impairment in the use of non-verbal cues and body language (e.g., eye contact). (creativitypost.com)
  • The signs of autism in children can be wide-ranging, such as avoiding eye contact, delayed language skills, sensitivity to sound, repetitive behaviors, and obsessive interests. (nourishinghope.com)
  • These are prospective, epidemiological studies that assess language, cognition and school and adaptive functioning in children and adults who have suffered significant traumatic brain injuries. (uclahealth.org)
  • 1999). 'Fluency versus Conscious Recollection in Category-Production Performance: The Performance of Schizophrenic Patients' Brain and Cognition 39(2): 100-115. (jeanpaullaurent.fr)
  • As disease progresses, patients may exhibit affective or schizophrenic psychoses, particularly with paranoia delusions , as well as explosive and aggressive outbursts, apathy, alcohol abuse, sexual dysfunction and increased appetite. (symptoma.com)
  • 37% equated SMI with specific diagnoses, 9% equated SMI with functional impairment, 5% with a duration of the disturbance, and 2% with particular services received. (madinamerica.com)
  • Cognitive deficits are a major contributor to the functional and social impairment suffered by these patients and have been noted to have more of an impact on the daily lifeand overall quality of life of these patients. (ejpsychiatry.com)
  • Coderre EL, Smith JF , van Heuven WJ, Horwitz B . The Functional Overlap of Executive Control and Language Processing in Bilinguals. (neurotree.org)
  • CODERRE EL, SMITH JF , VAN HEUVEN WJB, HORWITZ B . The functional overlap of executive control and language processing in bilinguals* Bilingualism . (neurotree.org)
  • Again, from a purely genetic stance, Mukherjee works to navigate through the schizophrenic genetic puzzles: "In some families, perhaps, there are fewer gene variants, but with more potent effects - thereby explaining the recurrence of the disorder across generations. (psychotherapyandculture.com)
  • He may be a world-class narcissist, but this doesn't make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder. (nhjournal.com)
  • The terms clinically significant, distress, and impairment are hopelessly subjective and prone to personal bias. (madinamerica.com)
  • However, as far as psychiatry is concerned, they are not schizophrenics. (theydiffer.com)
  • Conclusions: The findings show a selective impairment in the response to psychosocial stress in schizophrenic patients. (mssm.edu)
  • More, schizophrenics showed different capabilities in doing vocabulary tasks, and they also showed different impairments in their attempt to learn foreign language words. (scirp.org)
  • 2) Schizophrenics' performance was impaired on all tasks, particularly on those loading heavily on the analytic component (matrix reasoning and second-order ToM). (bgu.ac.il)
  • Language knowledge may develop very slowly and cause a lack of social skills. (majortests.com)
  • It can affect a child's physical, language, and social skills. (majortests.com)
  • Audio recordings of interviews with 42 psychiatric patients (10 schizophrenic, 11 manic, 11 schizoaffective, and 10 depressive patients) and 10 hospitalized orthopedic patients were rated for the presence of verbal communication impairment using the system developed by Andreasen. (illinois.edu)
  • Little is known about the biological mechanisms that are involved in stress processing in schizophrenic patients. (mssm.edu)
  • And would likely feel stigmatized by language painting a candidate with a mental disorder (real or perceived) as 'unfit' or 'unworthy' to assume the presidency. (nhjournal.com)
  • Methods: Eighteen schizophrenic patients were compared to 21 healthy controls in their salivary cortisol response to a physical (bicycle ergometry) and a psychosocial (public speaking) stressor. (mssm.edu)
  • Severe Renal or Hepatic Impairment in Adults: Use a lower starting dose of 0.5 mg twice daily. (nih.gov)
  • This cues the reader in that your friend's race, sexual orientation, or hearing impairment is relevant to the story. (legalaidwv.org)
  • Their CT findings did not differ significantly from the larger group of schizophrenics studied. (umn.edu)
  • In this study, hypothalamic- pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function in schizophrenic patients was studied for its essential role in stress processing and adaptation to the environment. (mssm.edu)
  • Left temporal impairment of auditory information processing in prematurely born 9-year-old children: an electrophysiological study. (jeanpaullaurent.fr)
  • Executive functions are limited in capacity and accountable for the initiation, consolidation, regulation, and inhibition of cognitive, language, motor and emotional processes. (wikipedia.org)
  • The authors suggest a few changes that might be helpful to other investigators, both in the procedures used for obtaining samples of speech and the definitions of subcategories of verbal communication impairment. (illinois.edu)
  • Delusions of persecution manifest themselves in the honest belief that some individual, either real or unreal, or group of individuals is looking for a schizophrenic person in order to punish him or otherwise bring harm. (theydiffer.com)
  • So, there are different pathways that can lead to you having a person who is having trouble with language, with socialization, with a need for sameness, which we put together and call autism. (allthingsif.org)
  • Some people with disabilities prefer identity-first language and are offended by person-first language. (legalaidwv.org)
  • How do I know when to use either person-first language or identity-first language? (legalaidwv.org)
  • If the identity language is dehumanizing, carries strong negative connotation, use person-first language. (legalaidwv.org)
  • When should person-first language be used? (legalaidwv.org)
  • Person-first language should be used when the description, characteristic, diagnosis, or condition has a negative connotation or when referring to entire groups of people. (legalaidwv.org)
  • People have different opinions about person-first and identity-first language. (legalaidwv.org)
  • What else should I avoid when using person-first language? (legalaidwv.org)
  • Results: Schizophrenic patients showed blunted cortisol responses to the psychosocial stressor, but not to the physical stressor, in spite of similar increases in heart rate. (mssm.edu)
  • The Reducing Bias in Language campaign is sponsored by the campus diversity coordinators. (iu.edu)
  • On Certain Features of Thought and Language of Schizophrenics. (scirp.org)
  • The study was conducted on 30 euthymic bipolar patients and 30 remitted schizophrenic patients diagnosed as per ICD-10. (ejpsychiatry.com)
  • After all, we avoid identity first language when the identifier has negative connotations. (legalaidwv.org)
  • Teaching English as a second or foreign language (3rd ed. (scirp.org)
  • Oxford: Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching. (scirp.org)
  • Sometimes artistic people are called "schizophrenics" because of their unusual creative powers and their ability to produce fresh ideas or apply innovative approaches. (theydiffer.com)
  • Potential for cognitive and motor impairment: Use caution when operating machinery. (nih.gov)
  • The authors conclude that researchers need to develop more precise and agreed-upon language rather than continue to reference the ill-defined concept of SMI. (madinamerica.com)
  • Researchers and stakeholders are encouraged to develop precise and agreed-upon diagnostic language in their efforts to support and advocate for people with mental illnesses. (madinamerica.com)
  • Quantification of ventricular and sulcal volumes from the computed tomographic (CT) scans of 45 schizophrenic patients and 57 normal controls was carried out using a semiautomated computerized approach. (umn.edu)
  • Schizophrenics had slightly larger ventricles and considerably larger sulci than controls. (umn.edu)
  • The authors also fear that the label SMI can exacerbate the stigma experienced by people already living with other labels such as "schizophrenic. (madinamerica.com)
  • Parallel independent component analysis (parallel-ICA) was used to examine the relationship between language-related regions extracted from resting-state fMRI and 16 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning 5 RD-related genes. (nih.gov)
  • Basal HPA function appeared intact in the schizophrenic patients. (mssm.edu)
  • Schizophrenic patients may demonstrate indifference, flattening of affect, or inappropriate mood. (mhmedical.com)
  • Se analizan los resultados de un estudio descriptivo y exploratorio, con el propósito de comprender los resultados de 21 pacientes esquizofrenicos varones, evaluados con pruebas neuropsicológicas, internados en un centro portugués de salud mental. (bvsalud.org)