Diagnosaurus
Schizophrenia
DDx
- Major depressive or manic episode with psychotic features
- Drugs or substance abuse, eg, steroids, cocaine, amphetamines, alcohol withdrawal
- Psychotic symptoms associated with dementia
- Delirium
- CNS disease, eg, complex partial seizures, tumor, neurosyphilis
- Nutritional deficiency, eg, thiamine, vitamin B12
- Heavy metal poisoning, eg, mercury
- Endocrinopathy, eg, hypothyroidism, Cushing’s syndrome
- Other psychotic disorder, eg, schizoaffective or schizophreniform disorder, delusional disorder (nonbizarre delusions, minimal impairment of daily functioning), brief psychotic disorder
- Personality disorder, eg, paranoid, schizotypal, schizoid
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Last updated: December 1, 2014
Citation
Zeiger, Roni F.. "Schizophrenia." Diagnosaurus, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2014. Emergency Central, emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114938/all/Schizophrenia.
Zeiger RFR. Schizophrenia. Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114938/all/Schizophrenia. Accessed April 28, 2025.
Zeiger, R. F. (2014). Schizophrenia. In Diagnosaurus (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114938/all/Schizophrenia
Zeiger RFR. Schizophrenia [Internet]. In: Diagnosaurus. McGraw-Hill Education; 2014. [cited 2025 April 28]. Available from: https://emergency.unboundmedicine.com/emergency/view/Diagnosaurus/114938/all/Schizophrenia.
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