| SADS | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia |
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| SADS-C | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Change |
| SADS-L | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Lifetime |
| schiz | schizophrenia |
| SFH | schizophrenia family history; serum-free hemoglobin; stroma-free hemoglobin |
| schizophrenia, disorganised | A type of schizophrenia characterised by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganised behaviour and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behaviour. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| schizophrenia, paranoid | A chronic form of schizophrenia characterised primarily by the presence of persecutory or grandiose delusions, often associated with hallucination. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pseudoneurotic schizophrenia | Schizophrenia in which the underlying psychotic process is masked by complaints ordinarily regarded as neurotic. (05 Mar 2000) |
| psychosis, schizophrenia | The most chronic and disabling of the major mental illnesses. Schizophrenia may be one disorder, or it may be many disorders, with different causes. Because of the disorder's complexity, few generalisations hold true for all people who are diagnosed as schizophrenic. (12 Dec 1998) |
| simple schizophrenia | Schizophrenia characterised by withdrawal, apathy, indifference, and impoverishment of human relationships without overt psychotic features. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disorganised schizophrenia | A severe form of schizophrenia characterised by the predominance of incoherence, blunted, inappropriate or silly affect, and the absence of systematised delusions. Synonym: hebephrenic schizophrenia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| latent schizophrenia | A preexisting susceptibility for developing overt schizophrenia under strong emotional stress. (05 Mar 2000) |