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.
â¢ Psychosis is a collection of symptoms that occur together over a period of time. The most prominent symptoms of psychosis are delusions and hallucinations where a person loses touch with reality, and has trouble telling the difference between what is real and what is not. Psychosis can affect the way a person thinks, feels and behaves (see Table 1).