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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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Kanner Syndrome – Information You Need If You Suspect Your Child Has This Disorder

Kanner syndrome studies began in the early 1940s when a strange coincidence of research was taking place in America and Austria at the very same time. Two scientists were researching unusual behaviors in children. They were both not only coming to the same conclusions but they were using the same word, unbeknownst to the other, to describe this disorder.  Both used the word autism, though oddly they were seeing different degrees of a similar disorder.

Kanner called the disorder he was researching Kanner syndrome or autism disorder. It is known as both though more people refer to it simply as autism. In the early 1940s Dr. Leo Kanner was researching this with a group of children who seemed to be exhibiting the symptoms of schizophrenia. But his research led him to believe that it was not actually childhood schizophrenia he was seeing but something else, something quite different. He first used the term infantile autism to name this new disorder he’d found.

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