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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Schizophrenia.
See also changes related to Schizophrenia, or pages that link to Schizophrenia or to this page or whose text contains "Schizophrenia".


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Subtopics

  • Delusion [r]: A belief with no basis in reality, or shared with a person's culture, that persists despite evidence to the contrary. [e]
  • Hallucination [r]: Perception of objects, sounds, or sensations having no demonstrable reality, usually arising from a disorder of the nervous system or in response to certain drugs. [e]

Other related topics

  • Synapse [r]: Contact point between neurons and other cells, crucial for nerve signalling [e]
  • Synaptic pruning [r]: The usage-controlled loss of connections between nerve cells during brain development. [e]
  • Neurotransmitter [r]: A class of chemicals which relay, amplify or modulate electrical signals between a neuron and other cells in the nervous system. [e]
  • Dopamine [r]: A monoamine neurotransmitter formed in the brain by the decarboxylation of dopa and essential to the normal functioning of the central nervous system. [e]
  • GABA [r]: (GABA, or γ-aminobutyrate), the most common inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. [e]

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