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Schizophrenia Diagnosis
ICD-10 - 1 month of symptoms (DSM-IV = 6 months)
One from
- thought echo, insertion withdrawal and broadcasting
- delusions of control, influence, passivity clearly referred to body or
limb movements or specific thoughts, actions or sensations, delusional
perception
- hallucinatory voices giving a running commentary on the patient's
behaviour or discussing patient among themselves or other types of
hallucinatory voices coming from some part of the body
- persistent delusions of other kinds that are culturally inappropriate and
completely impossible
At least two from
- persistent hallucinations in any modality when accompanied by fleeting or
half formed delusions without clear affective content, or by persistent
over-valued ideas or when occurring every day for weeks or months on end
- breaks or interpolations in the train of thought, resulting in incoherence
or irrelevant speech or neologisms
- catatonic behaviour such as excitement posturing or waxy flexibility,
negativism, mutism, stupor
- negative symptoms such as marked apathy, paucity of speech, blunting,
incongruity of emotional responses usually resulting in social withdrawal
and lowering of social performance
For one year
- significant and persistent change in overall quality of some aspects of
personal behaviour, manifest as loss of interest, aimlessness, idleness a
self-absorbed attitude and social withdrawal
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