paraphrenic schizophrenia

Noun
  1. A form of schizophrenia characterized by delusions (of persecution or grandeur or jealousy);
    Symptoms may include anger and anxiety and aloofness and doubts about gender identity;
    Unlike other types of schizophrenia the patients are usually presentable and (if delusions are not acted on) may function in an apparently normal manner (synset 114423256)
    is a type of: dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis - any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact
    same as: paranoic type schizophrenia, paranoid schizophrenia, paraphrenia

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