The cognitive symptoms include:
- Hallucinations,
- delusions,
- disturbed thought processes and
- cognitive flooding.
Mood symptoms include:
- Serious depression and
- inappropriate or inconsistant emotions, for example they may be impassive in the face of death of a loved one.
Individuals with schizophrenia may also show more or less physiological arousal than normal, in heart rate, blood pressure, sweating palms etc.
At one extreme this leads to agitated, repetitive movements, facial grimacing or difficulty in sitting still and at the other the extreme is immobility.
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