The following symptoms and complaints may indicate schizophrenia:
Leading symptoms category 1 (disorganized speech).
- Thought sounds become
- Thought inspiration
- Thought deprivation
- Thought propagation
- Thought Tear Off
- Delusions of control and influence
- Commenting or dialogic voices
- Persistent bizarre delusion
Leading symptoms category 2
- Persistent hallucinations
- Catatonic symptoms (disturbance of voluntary motor function) such as.
- Arousal
- Postural stereotypes
- Negativism
- Stupor (physical rigidity)
- Negative symptoms such as.
- Apathy (apathy)
- Speech slowdown
- Inadequate affect – mood and emotional behavior.
For a diagnosis of schizophrenia, at least one category 1 symptom or at least two category 2 symptoms must have been clearly present for more than one month.
Note
- Schizophrenia should not be diagnosed in the presence of clear neurologic disease, intoxication, or withdrawal.
- Neurocognitive impairments such as attention and executive functions are often detectable long before manifestation of the disorder or schizophrenic psychosis.
- Anxiety and negative symptoms may represent early manifestations of genetic schizophrenia risk.
Notes on negative symptomatology (minus symptomatology): negative symptomatology summarizes various symptoms that may occur in the context of schizophrenia. These are characterized by lowering, diminution, and impoverishment of psychological features. These features include affect, drive, psychomotor function, and thinking.
