Are there different types of schizophrenia?

Schizophrenia is likely not one discreet illness, explains HealthMaker Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, a psychiatrist at The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Here, he discusses the different mechanisms of the brain and current diagnostic tools.

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In the past, we had divided it up in terms of our diagnostic manual that serves as a guidebook for making a diagnosis

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into a few different types. We've moved away from those divisions. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Schizophrenia is probably going to be found not to be one discrete illness.

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So as we study more about it and the mechanisms in the brain, we're going to find that there are

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different mechanisms for different things that we currently call schizophrenia. So in the past, we had divided it

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up in terms of our diagnostic manual that serves as a guidebook for making a diagnosis into a few different types.

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We've moved away from those divisions. But as we see patients, as we do research,

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we're finding that there really are differences. And we're going to find that what we currently call schizophrenia is going to ultimately called schizophrenia

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A, B, C, D. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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