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Schizophrenia

Anesthesia Implications

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Pathophysiology

Schizophrenia is a chronic psychotic disorder — hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thought on the positive side, anhedonia, poverty of speech and loss of motivation on the negative side. It...

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