Symptom manifestations in schizophrenia: A study from real life data Barthakur Sangeeta1,*, Sarmah Pranita2 1Department of Statistics, Cotton College, Guwahati, India. 2Department of Statistics, Gauhati University, Guwahati, India. Corresponding author: sangeetabarthakur@rediffmail.com
Online published on 2 July, 2012. Abstract Schizophrenia is a mental disorder with varied symptoms that significantly impair functioning and that involve disturbances in feeling, thinking and behavior. In this paper, the different symptoms manifested in schizophrenia have been dealt with in detail. Certain terms commonly used to describe the symptom manifestations in schizophrenia are defined and explained in section 2 and some real life observations of symptoms reported by patients of the Gauhati Medical College Hospital, Guwahati, India, and patients visiting some leading psychiatrists of Guwahati are presented in section 5. Top Keywords Delusions, Hallucinations, Schizophrenia, Symptoms. Top |