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Paranoid schizophrenia

Paranoid schizophrenia

The paranoid type of schizophrenia is dominated by delusions and/or auditory hallucinations.


Review Date: 02/07/2010
Reviewed By: David B. Merrill, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

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