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.
Psychosis occurs in a number of serious mental illnesses and not just schizophrenia, eg depression, bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), puerperal psychosis and sometimes with drug and alcohol abuse. It can also occur in a number of neurological conditions and with drugs not associated with abuse.Psychosis interferes with the ability to function and can be very debilitating. Disabling symptoms include delusions and hallucinations 1  : A delusion is a false, fixed, strange, or irrational belief that is firmly held. Depression can cause psychosis and all forms of mental illness have a risk of suicide, not just depression. 2  There are a number of forms of self-harm assessment.