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.
a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality. 2. any severe form of mental disorder, as schizophrenia or paranoia. Origin of psychosis.