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Adhd vs Schizophrenia - What's the difference?

adhd | schizophrenia |

As nouns the difference between adhd and schizophrenia

is that adhd is while schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.

adhd

English

Noun

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    • See also

    * ADHD-C * * ADHD-PI

    See also

    * (Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder)

    schizophrenia

    English

    (wikipedia schizophrenia)

    Noun

  • (pathology) A psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion.
  • (informal) Any condition in which disparate or mutually exclusive activities coexist.

    • Derived terms

    * borderline schizophrenia * catatonic schizophrenia (catatonia) * disorganized schizophrenia * hebephrenic schizophrenia (hebephrenia) * latent schizophrenia * paranoid schizophrenia * paraphrenic schizophrenia * reactive schizophrenia * schizophrenic

    Synonyms

    * dementia praecox * schizophrenic disorder * schizophrenic psychosis