Is schizophrenia organic or functional

Much research suggests that this distinction between organic and functional is probably inaccurate.

. . . . These include clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD). . .

However, altered brain function that precipitates hallucinations and delusions is more often associated with specific psychiatric disorders, which are categorized as functional. . . . Organic. .

Not only will unsuspected organic conditions be missed, but syndromes resembling delirium or dementia without evidence of underlying organic pathology may ultimately be.

Older people with long-term functional mental illness are often neglected. In contrast, schizophrenia is a nonaffective. Schizophrenia, epilepsy, the temporal lobe , Headley , Ashford, UK ( 1969 ) , pp.

The categories of functional psychoses have varied with time, place and professionals’ views, with moving boundaries, especially between schizophrenia and affective psychoses.

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