These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withspectrum.schizophrenianoun[U]uk
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/?sk?t.s??fri?.ni.?/a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what ...See more atschizophreniaspectrumnoun[C]uk
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/?spek.tr?m/the set of colours into which a beam of light can be separated, or a range of waves, such as light waves or ...See more atspectrum
(Definition ofschizophreniaandspectrumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Theschizophreniaspectrumis considered here to include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, and paranoid personality disorder.From theCambridge English CorpusThey are likely to meet criteria for personality disorders within theschizophreniaspectrumor be considered to have subclinical features of spectrum disorders.From theCambridge English CorpusFish et al. (1992) diagnosed at least 6 of these patients at adulthood as having severeschizophreniaspectrumdisorders and one as having schizophrenia.From theCambridge English CorpusAll subjects met criteria for aschizophreniaspectrumdisorder.From theCambridge English CorpusGenetic liability forschizophreniaspectrumdisorder and an adoptive family rearing variable interact, predicting longitudinally and significantly to broadly defined adoptee psychiatric disorder.From theCambridge English CorpusThose with less acute disorders in theschizophreniaspectrummay share biological vulnerabilities leading to similar but milder declines in function.From theCambridge English CorpusWe used the more inclusive diagnostic groupingschizophreniaspectrumdisorders to increase sample size for analyses.From theCambridge English CorpusThere are many sorts of overlap between affective illness and theschizophreniaspectrum.From theCambridge English CorpusNine subjects were excluded as they did not have schizophrenia,schizophreniaspectrumor bipolar affective disorder, and one because of being too psychiatrically unwell.From theCambridge English CorpusThe sample included seven adoptees withschizophreniaspectrumdisorders, but a separate analysis to predict them was non-significant.From theCambridge English CorpusOf those patients for whom a 1-year follow-up diagnosis was available, 80 % had a diagnosis within theschizophreniaspectrumof disorders.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Want to learn more?Go to the definition ofschizophreniaGo to the definition ofspectrumSee other collocations withspectrum#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/schizophrenia-spectrum##
