Schizophrenia

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.
  • n. A situation or condition that results from the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic qualities, identities, or activities: the national schizophrenia that results from carrying out an unpopular war.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
  • n. Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
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