Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Diagnosis

Schizophrenia is one of the psychotic disorders in the broad array of psychological disturbances found in the human beings. The diagnosis of schizophrenia is based on a complete psychological evaluation of the person. History of the person's medical and personal life is also important to the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Laboratory testing comes after the above mentioned steps mostly. As it is a completely psychological disease, there exist no such laboratory tests which can diagnose schizophrenia with a simple test of urine or blood for instance; rather these tests are carried out to rule out any chance of other related disorders or ...