Veterinary Assistant Salaries in Providence, RI Prepares treatment room for examination of animals; restrains animals during examination, treatment, or inoculation. Administers injections, performs venipunctures, applies wound dressings, cleans teeth, and takes vital signs of animal.
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disease characterized by psychosis as well as negative symptoms like lack of motivation and need for pleasure, lack of emotions and judgement, disorganisation of thought and behaviour. The exact causes for schizophrenia are not known. Psychosis can occur due to alcohol, drugs, medical conditions like hypothyroidism, mania, etc. Diagnosis of both is by exclusion of physical conditions, drug abuse, etc using blood tests, imaging procedures and DSM-IV criteria.
Share this with a friend. Follow Schizophrenia Support. Schizophrenia is classified as a psychotic disorder, which means the inability to tell the difference between what is real or imagined. Two types of psychotic symptoms characteristic of this serious psychiatric disorder are hallucinations and delusions.