Antipsychotic-Induced Weight Gain (AIWG)
Causes of Obesity Patients with schizophrenia are twice as likely to be obese (with a BMI over 30) than the general population. Many factors contribute to weight gain in schizophrenia,...
Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia can cause cognitive symptoms that affect the way a person’s brain learns, stores and uses information. Cognitive symptoms may come on gradually and overlap with...
Disorganized Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Disorganized Symptoms of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia can cause a decline in overall daily functioning. Disorganized symptoms tend to manifest in early onset Schizophrenia and can cause a person to have difficulties...
Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Symptoms of Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a complex mental illness that affects a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Schizophrenia patients are usually initially diagnosed during a period of psychosis, (loss of...
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia Positive symptoms appear in surplus in patients with Schizophrenia, and are not usually found in healthy individuals. In this instance, positive stands for “presence of” abnormal...
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia Negative symptoms are deficits in functioning related to motivation and interest (avolition, anhedonia, asociality), or expression (blunted affect, alogia) that are not easy to identify and...
First and Second Generation Antipsychotics
Psychosis Psychosis is a symptom of mental illness that involves disturbed or unusual thinking, strong or inappropriate emotions, and hearing, seeing, or believing things that aren’t real. Antipsychotics Antipsychotic medications...