schizophrenia

noun

Definition of schizophrenianext
as in dementia
technical a very serious mental illness in which someone cannot think or behave normally and often experiences delusions

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Recent Examples of schizophrenia Teva Pharmaceutical Industries — Shares gained 6% after Teva announced that the Food and Drug Administration approved Weltruza, the company's monthly long-acting injectable treatment for schizophrenia in adults. — Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 9 Oct. 2026 In addition to fentanyl, toxicology tests detected alprazolam, commonly known as Xanax; the muscle relaxant methocarbamol; and quetiapine, a medication primarily used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and, in some cases, depression. — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2026 Leveille, who was later diagnosed with acute schizophrenia, convinced Siraj and the other defendants that Abdul’s mother was using black magic on the boy in late 2017. — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 8 Oct. 2026 Clozapine, antipsychotic drug primarily used in the treatment of severe schizophrenia, especially in instances when other treatments fail to improve symptoms. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for schizophrenia
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schizophrenia
  1. dementia
  2. psychosis
  3. paranoia
  4. neurosis
  5. hallucinosis
  6. hypomania
  7. mania
  8. insanity
Noun
  • Other symptoms include mild dementia that involves short-term memory loss, a lack of interest in daily activities and difficulty completing routine tasks.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
  • As a final demonstration of this approach’s promise, the researchers designed zinc proteases that could target proteins associated with neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s and frontotemporal dementia.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of dementia
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  • Even before the Clancy trial began, the forensic psychiatrist Susan Hatters-Friedman pointed out to me how quickly the discourse around the case had turned to postpartum psychosis, a rare disorder that affects about one in a thousand new mothers.
    — Anja Aronowsky Cronberg, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2026
  • As more and more people succumb to AI psychosis, horror movies are (as always) the first to dive into the repercussions.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of psychosis
Noun
  • Those impulses may have been shaped not by paranoia, but by evolution, as a way of staving off sickness in an uncertain world.
    — Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Impossible than to the hermetic paranoia of Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of paranoia
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  • Larry David has built one of the greatest careers in comedy out of his own hyperfixations, particular neuroses, and the surreal situations these often lead him into.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2026
  • His delightful turn as the vaguely insufferable, do-gooding mayor in Eddington was there primarily to prod weirdo sheriff Joaquin Phoenix further into homicidal neurosis.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of neurosis
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  • Boes was working with a patient who had a rare disorder called peduncular hallucinosis, in which damage to the thalamus, a structure at the center of the brain, causes visual hallucinations.
    — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
Definition of hallucinosis
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  • People with bipolar 2 disorder experience cycles of depression and hypomania, which is less intense than the mania experienced with bipolar 1 disorder.
    — Michael Casey, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
  • Schizoaffective disorder is a mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms, such as hallucinations and delusions, and mood disorder symptoms, such as depression, mania and a milder form of mania called hypomania, according to the Mayo Clinic.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 22 June 2026
Definition of hypomania
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  • The band frequently steers the poppy songwriting offroad by leaning into distortion and ambience, creating moments of both near-mania and hazy unease.
    — Sue Park, Pitchfork, 22 Oct. 2026
  • But this time, the AI wager is concentrated in far fewer companies than the railway mania ever was.
    — Ming Lu, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of mania
Noun
  • Bennett asked the jury to find Hinton not guilty by reason of insanity.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
  • That sentence would have sounded like insanity a few decades ago, but in the strange world of Hollywood in the 2020s, weirder might really be better.
    — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of insanity

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