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.
But not the same. Psychosis is a symptom, like fever is a symptom. Many conditions can have psychosis as a symptom, scores if not a100 different ones. Schizophrenia is a brain disease which has the symptom of psychosis at its'core.
A brain chemical, dopamine, is also thought to be involved in the causes of schizophrenia. Effective antipsychotic medications (medications which reduce psychosis) inhibit the neurons that fire this chemical while drugs that exacerbate dopamine firing are known to induce psychosis.