Category including disorders that arise before adolescence such as mental retardation, attention deficit disorder, anorexia and bulimia. Disorders involving an injury to the brain or biochemical imbalances in the brain such as Alzheimer's, syphilis, extreme alcoholism or lead poisoning. Excessive use of drugs that alter behavior such as heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, cocaine, marijuana. 5. A group of disorders in which perception is distorted, emotions are blunted, language is jumbled and confused, and generally involves persons who have lost touch with reality. A type of schizophrenia indicating severe disorganization of language, emotions, and social behavior.
Person exhibits inappropriate behavior and incoherent language.
A schizophrenic with bizarre motor activity. Type of schizophrenia involving systematized delusions-complex, elaborate false systems of belief. Three main types are delusions of grandeur, reference, and persecution. Minor symptoms of schizophrenia that continue after a serious episode. A false perceptual experience that distorts reality such as hearing voices, feeling bugs crawling on you and seeing and feeling things that are not there.