Schizoaffective Disorder

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A study done by Daniel J Abrams, Donald C Rojas, and David B Arciniegas in December of 2008 examined the unique disorder, schizoaffective disorder. The objective of the experiment was to determine if as an illness it is being treated correctly and to answer the question of if it is a distinct categorical diagnosis, or if a dimensional approach is better served. The inferred hypothesis states that the results would match the social norm in the aspect that when examining the amount of clash that surrounds schizoaffective disorder it may not be taken fully seriously since it really is not well known about. Method When reading and looking at the article it is different from others in the aspect that it is comparing and contrasting already done…show more content…
According to this article, substantial amount of clash surrounds the presence of schizoaffective disorder in the psychology community. Schizoaffective disorder is a variation of schizophrenia in which affective mood disorders are unusually prominent. People with this illness may suffer from a severe variant of either major depressive or bipolar disorder. Schizoaffective disorder presents increasingly large challenges for the affected because the signs and symptoms of this condition are kind of unorthodox when looking at the categorical diagnostic boundaries between psychotic disorders and mood disorders. There is a challenge of describing schizoaffective disorder out of the aspect that it is hard to pin-point and diagnose. Using a categorical diagnostic approach, the data reviewed in this article proposes that schizoaffective disorder can be argued to have some of the same distinctions of schizophrenia or a mood affective disorder. However it is a condition where both of these may be seen together and are co-morbid. Additionally, the present review suggests that the…show more content…
And it was clear that the only way to clearly diagnose if someone may have this illness and not just one or the other, but a true comorbidity then the consistent study and observation of the individual through the use of neuroimaging, electro-physiologic, neurochemical, neuroendocrine, genetic, and treatment. May actually be the only findings that successfully follow psychiatric symptoms rather than categorical diagnosis that has for the most part not been as accurate. However also after more research and study, this existing review advocates that the assessment and treatment of individuals with this type of psychiatric disorder is likely to be far more successful when affixed to the scope of neurobehavioral dysfunction that they most tend to illustrate. And this approach that they are talking about originates from the methodology used in behavioral neurology and neuropsychiatry, usually starting with the basis that reasoning perception, mood, and behavior are separate but interconnected areas of neurobehavioral function an

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