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Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features

Medical Definition:	Marked disorders of thought (delusions, hallucinations, or other thought disorder accompanied by disordered affect or behavior), and deterioration from a previous level of functioning.
Guide Notes:	not used for indexing CATALOG: do not use

Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features Categories.

	Capgras Syndrome - A psychotic disorder characterized by the patient's belief that acquaintances or closely related persons have been replaced by doubles or imposters.
	Paranoid Disorders - Chronic mental disorders in which there has been an insidious development of a permanent and unshakeable delusional system (persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy), accompanied by preservation of clear and orderly thinking. Emotional responses and behavior are consistent with the delusional state.
	Psychotic Disorders - Disorders in which there is a loss of ego boundaries or a gross impairment in reality testing with delusions or prominent hallucinations. (From DSM-IV, 1994)
	Schizophrenia - A severe emotional disorder of psychotic depth characteristically marked by a retreat from reality with delusion formation, hallucinations, emotional disharmony, and regressive behavior.

Schizophrenia and Disorders with Psychotic Features Medical Definitions and Terms

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