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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a brain illness that affects one percent of the people all over the world. The persons can be young or older, women or men, it doesn’t matter. It’s diagnosis can be more difficult than it might seem because the symptoms of schizophrenia can be similar at times to other major brain disorders such as bipolar disorder or even major depression.
Schizophrenia is characterized by a disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting the most fundamental human attributes: language, thought, perception, affect, and sense of self. The entire sense of self is changed when a person is schizophrenic.
Schizophrenia symptoms are divided into three categories: positive symptoms, disorganized symptoms, and negative symptoms.
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Signs of Autism – Checklist of Symptoms You Can Use to Test Your Child For Autistic Disorder
The signs of autism can be identified as various early stages of development. The definition of autism is as a neurodevelopmental disorder with three very definite symptom classes. For a person to be diagnosed with having the signs of autism they must have a certain number of these symptoms. They are broken down into three groups. Signs must be seen, before the child reaches three years old, of unusual behaviors in social situations, language delays or oddities and an inability in normal imaginative play situations. If you are wondering if your child might be autistic review the checklist below, they must have at least six of the below signs, a minimum of two from the first group and one each from the second and third groups.
Lack of normal social interaction;
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Regressive Autism – Sometimes These Symptoms Are Diagnosed Incorrectly As PDD Or Schizophrenia
Regressive Autism is when a child who has developed normally for the first three to four years of heir lives, meeting all the social, communicative and motor skill milestones, suddenly begins to regress you may be looking at a case of Childhood Disintegrative Disorder. This is a rare and frightening form of regressive autism. Studies have shown that a mere two out of one hundred thousand autistic children will be found to have this condition. And like autism itself this regressive disorder favors the males.
To clarify, this is different than Rett Syndrome, which favors girls, because of the extended phase of normal development. A child with Rett Syndrome begins their regression at no later than eighteen months. A child with Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, CDD, will learn age appropriated communication skills; they will have learned to talk. The child will have had normal social interactions, been cuddly and affectionate. Then it will stop and over a few short months the child will begin to regress and all the things they will have learned will disappear. They will completely lose their vocabulary no matter how developed it was. Their motor skills will suffer, as will their social abilities. They will pull away from the hugs they used to crave.
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