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schizophrenic

A serious mental illness which results in delusional thought patterns, hallucinations and inappropriate affect. These patients will often suffer from social and occupational difficulty in addition to personal disability.


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God vs Evolution

quote from Alex "It's logically impossible to prove that something doesn't exist." So, when a psychiatrist hears a schizophrenic saying that he has killed someone because God told him to do it, are yo suggesting that it is not possible to disprove this using logic? For if we ...

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by genovese
Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:50 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: God vs Evolution
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The Fiber Disease

... paper argues that the spiritualists' enduring fascination with noise exposes the connections between sound technologies, psychic phenomena and schizophrenic hallucinations which pose a threat to the autonomy and integrity of the listening and speaking subject. THE REASON I CHOSE THAT ARTICLE ...

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by Sabrina
Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:08 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Views: 748694

The Fiber Disease

... paper argues that the spiritualists' enduring fascination with noise exposes the connections between sound technologies, psychic phenomena and schizophrenic hallucinations which pose a threat to the autonomy and integrity of the listening and speaking subject. THE REASON I CHOSE THAT ARTICLE ...

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by London
Sun Jan 14, 2007 7:46 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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When are they ever going to get it?

... usually contracted congenitally. A large study of mentally handicapped persons revealed that the incidence of t.gondii infection in schizophrenic patients was twice that of control subjects. German research has revealed that first onset schizophrenia patients have a 42 % incidence ...

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by Sabrina
Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:32 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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Shame on you

... of in-vitro pharmacology. J Drug Res 1983;8:1984-1997 7. McCreadier RG, Heykants JJP, Chalmers A, Anderson AM. Plasma pimozide profilesin chronic schizophrenics. Br J Clin Pharmacol 1979;7:534-535 8. Trabert W. 100 years of delusion of parasitosis: meta-analysis of 1223 case reports. Psychopathology ...

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by Sabrina
Sat Apr 15, 2006 6:44 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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