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  2. 7 Types of Delusions in Schizophrenia - Healthline

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    People with schizophrenia often have delusions: false beliefs about themselves or the world around them. The types of delusions in schizophrenia can vary, but persecutory delusions are the...

  3. Schizophrenia - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

    www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia is a serious mental health condition that affects how people think, feel and behave. It may result in a mix of hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking and behavior. Hallucinations involve seeing things or hearing voices that aren't observed by others.

  4. What are schizophrenia delusions? - Medical News Today

    www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/schizophrenia-delusions

    Schizophrenia delusions are false beliefs that people hold despite evidence that they are not true. The most common type is delusions of persecution, which involve a belief that a...

  5. Schizophrenia Basics: Delusions, Hallucinations, Onset - Psych...

    psychcentral.com/schizophrenia/delusions-vs-hallucinations

    People with schizophrenia sometimes experience hallucinations or delusions. These are both altered perceptions of reality, but they feel very real to the person experiencing them....

  6. Schizophrenia - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539864

    Schizophrenia, a serious mental illness, affects 1% of the global population and is marked by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized behavior, and negative signs and symptoms such as reduced emotional expression, avolition, and cognitive impairment.

  7. Delusional Disorder: Types, Symptoms, and Treatment - WebMD

    www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/delusional-disorder

    Schizophrenia is a break with reality that may involve delusions or hallucinations but includes other symptoms too. People with schizophrenia can have trouble with personal and professional...

  8. Schizophrenia - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/schizophrenia

    Delusions: When a person has strong beliefs that are not true and may seem irrational to others. For example, individuals experiencing delusions may believe that people on the radio and television are sending special messages that require a certain response, or they may believe that they are in danger or that others are trying to hurt them.

  9. Neurobiology of Schizophrenia: A Comprehensive Review - PMC

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9080788

    Schizophrenia is a debilitating disease that presents with both positive and negative symptoms affecting cognition and emotions. Extensive studies have analyzed the different factors that contribute to the disorder. ... Studies report persecutory delusions, misidentification, and visual hallucinations as initial symptoms of late-onset ...

  10. Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia - Merck Manual Consumer Version

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    Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality (psychosis), hallucinations (usually, hearing voices), firmly held false beliefs (delusions), abnormal thinking and behavior, reduced expression of emotions, diminished motivation, a decline in mental function (cognition), and problems in daily functioning, includin...

  11. Schizophrenia - World Health Organization (WHO)

    www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/schizophrenia

    Schizophrenia is characterised by significant impairments in the way reality is perceived and changes in behaviour related to: persistent delusions: the person has fixed beliefs that something is true, despite evidence to the contrary; persistent hallucinations: the person may hear, smell, see, touch, or feel things that are not there;