End-Time Deficit Schizophrenic Case Studies

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There is a homeless man that seems to reside in the area where I grew up. He is often found at the intersection in front of the local HEB and nearby areas. He is frequently running out into the intersections making vigorous motions at cars and yelling unintelligible commands, while dressed in puzzling outfits. This man is so often spotted doing ludicrous tasks, that the local young adults have created a Facebook page for him, where their friends can post pictures of where he is seen and their interactions. I suppose to many this is funny, and to most it seems a harmless act, but for me, I see the signs of a dangerous disease that I am desperately trying to understand.
My sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was just leaving high school, and she was 19.
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It involves limiting the progression of disease by relying on the earliest possible delivery of interventions and staging a framework that encompasses a broader range of clinical phenotypes to organize and validate data. Research using empirical data from known schizophrenic cases can provide ‘risk assessment’ to each individual case, by identifying well known risk factors such as genetics and obstetric complications along with developmental and behavioral problems in childhood, psychopathology and other indicators such as changes in social behavior, neurophysiology such as EEG to identify schizophrenic characteristics, and neuroimaging such as MRI, showing structural changes in the brain, to improve early detection of the beginning disease. Several staging/interview-based checklists are designed to cover general mental illness risks, not necessarily psychosis. These are important, because there is a cross-sectioning between various problems and perspective disorders that follow that same developmental identifiers as

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