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The schizophrenia is an alteration that persists for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of two or more symptoms of the following ones: The subject with schizophrenia presents inappropriate reactions, like laugh in moments in which it was not of waiting. They show an entire loss of the interest in the things, they are not sorry to please. They suffer alterations of the sleep, sleeping during the day and being worried during the night. The subject can prove to be lacking in interest to eat or even to push food back as a result of his delirious beliefs. Often they have clear difficulties of concentration, attention and memory. Most of these individuals are scantly conscious of that present a psychotic illness. They are sure of that the world that has been created, the bubble in which they live, his way of perceiving, it is the reality, and we are the others the "rare ones". The anxiety and the phobias are habitual in the schizophrenia. Sometimes there happen abnormalities motorboats like grimaces, rare positions, ritual behaviors... They are physically awkward. Not always the schizophrenia is related to the violence, but they can happen together in cases in which the subject is a man, a young man, with precedents of violence, which breaks the medication and consumes substances. Nevertheless it has to be indicated that the schizophrenic subjects are not more dangerous than the general population. Between 80 and 90 % of the individuals with schizophrenia are habitual smokers. They tend to smoke more normal thing, and to choose cigarets with high place contained in nicotine. Some physical distortions are more frequent between schizophrenics like the excessively together or separated eyes, ears malformadas... There has been observed an increase of the risk of enduring schizophrenia associated with prenatal factors and of the childhood as the prenatal exhibition to the virus of the influenza or to the undernourishment, obstetric complications, infection of the central nervous system in the infancy. The genetic factors are of supreme importance: a son of an individual with schizophrenia has 10 times more possibilities of developing the schizophrenia. Although also the environmental factors are important: relatives who live together with a schizophrenic subject have also more probabilities of developing the alteration (it is a so called bogey of the schizophrenia). Studies demonstrate a major cánnabis consumption on the part of schizophrenic subjects compared to the rest of the psychiatric population. Information relative to the birth suggests geographical and historical differences. More high risk happens in case of birth in urban environment that in the rural one, as well as a gradual descent of the incidence of the cases of more recent birth. The schizophrenia is a pathology that is observed in the whole world with a predominance between adults of between 0,5 and 1.5 %, according to the DSM-IV-tr. |
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