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Schizophrenia vs Benperidol - What's the difference?

schizophrenia | benperidol |

As nouns the difference between schizophrenia and benperidol

is that schizophrenia is (pathology) a psychiatric diagnosis denoting a persistent, often chronic, mental illness variously affecting behavior, thinking, and emotion while benperidol is a potent butyrophenone antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and antisocial hypersexual behaviour.

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

    benperidol

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A potent butyrophenone antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia and antisocial hypersexual behaviour.