residual schizophrenia

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Related to residual schizophrenia: catatonic schizophrenia, undifferentiated schizophrenia

re·sid·u·al schiz·o·phre·ni·a

blunted or inappropriate affect, social withdrawal, eccentric behavior, or loose associations, but without prominent psychotic symptoms, as the remains of former psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia.

residual schizophrenia

Etymology: L, residuum

a form of schizophrenia in which the essential features of delusions, hallucinations, incoherence, or gross disorganization are much less prominent. See also schizophrenia.

re·sid·u·al schiz·o·phre·ni·a

(rē-zid'yū-ăl skits'ō-frē'nē-ă)

Blunted or inappropriate affect, social withdrawal, eccentric behavior, or loose associations, but without prominent psychotic symptoms, such delusions and hallucinations.

residual schizophrenia

A schizophrenic disorder marked by continuing evidence of flat affect, impoverished or disorganized speech, and eccentric or odd behavior but showing no evidence of delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech.

See also: schizophrenia

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Relationship between spirituality/religiousness and coping in patients with residual schizophrenia.

Positive aspects of caregiving and its correlates in caregivers of schizophrenia: a study from North India

Eligible patients for this study had to have met the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR) (15) criteria for residual schizophrenia.

Depression in Kraepelinian schizophrenia

In this study 80% patient with paranoid schizophrenia and 24% patient with residual schizophrenia were found depressed while neither any patient with undifferentiated nor any disorganized or catatonic schizophrenia found depressed, The difference is significant which suggest that patient having paranoid symptoms (which usually present during acute worsening of disorder) have more chance of depression than residual schizophrenia (which develop after acute symptoms resolved).