schizophrenia
Across
- 1. Genetics, brain chemistry and environmental factors contribute to the _______ of schizophrenia
- 3. loss of contact with reality and affect a person’s perceptions, thinking, feelings and behavior.
- 4. ________is one of the many complications people with schizophrenia have to deal with.
- 6. schizophrenia can cause problems with _________.
- 7. is it curable?
- 10. in ten ______ Individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia will attempt suicide.
- 11. hallucinations, delusions and disorganized speech and behavior is the ________ of schizophrenia
- 13. what is the most common cause of suicide for people suffering from schizophrenia?
- 14. ___________is a chronic brain disorder that affects social behavior and failure to understand what is real and unreal, to think clearly and function normally.
- 18. People with schizophrenia have shown subtle differences in the structure of their brains.
- 20. tend to run in families
Down
- 2. what is the primary medication for people dealing with schizophrenia?
- 5. ____________ is the chemicals that carry messages between the brain cell of people with schizophrenia
- 8. Worldwide and in Canada, it affects ______ of the population
- 9. and glutamate problems with certain naturally occurring chemicals, including neurotransmitters called _______ and ________, may contribute to schizophrenia.
- 12. in ten ______ will die from suicide due to having schizophrenia.
- 15. only 15% returning to previous functioning conditions. Women patients are more likely than men to maintain improvement of symptoms.
- 16. people with schizophrenia often struggles with basic _________.
- 17. function
- 19. Men and women are affected with _______ frequency