How to Use schizophrenia in a Sentence

schizophrenia

noun
  • Patients have a 30-fold increase in the risk of schizophrenia.
    Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The man said Burks, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had slashed the tires on his car.
    Andrea May Sahouri, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The two are in a small room for a clinical trial on schizophrenia.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • One month Du was in and out at least four times, and he was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
  • In 1988, Memphis police shot and killed a man with schizophrenia.
    Meg Kissinger, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Nearly 3 million adults in the U.S. live with schizophrenia.
    Sara Salinas, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The mother told police that her daughter had schizophrenia and was armed with a bat and knives, and had access to a gun.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Deaths were three times higher for those with schizophrenia, according to the study.
    Jack Guy, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
  • But the increase in schizophrenia deaths dwarfed both those conditions.
    Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • One of them, in March 2014, was James Boyd, a homeless man diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021
  • At the time of his death, the lawsuit states, a prescription for Risperidone — a drug used to treat schizophrenia — was found in LeRoux’s car.
    Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Deputies found out the man had a history of schizophrenia, according to records, and did not arrest him.
    Grace Toohey, orlandosentinel.com, 9 July 2021
  • Gordon, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, had been in prison for four decades.
    Beth Harris, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Marks uses the fact of Carl Maier’s schizophrenia to prop up this diagnosis.
    Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Thomas has schizophrenia, according to court records, and was responding to voices telling him to kill his wife and the children.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • As a teenager, Dawn tried to research mental illness and schizophrenia at the library.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • On her second day on the job, a sergeant shot and killed a 66-year-old woman who had schizophrenia and was holding a baseball bat in her Bronx apartment.
    Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His own research has found evidence that the same parasite plays a role in schizophrenia.
    Ellen Barry, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2022
  • There's a collective schizophrenia in the world and the internet is feeding it and fueling it.
    Derek Scancarelli, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Gowan has a close childhood friend who at age 20 began exhibiting signs of schizophrenia.
    The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The woman tells the officer that Martin has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and that her 14-year-old son is still inside the house.
    Phil Davis, baltimoresun.com, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Most of the calls are related to her son, who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to the lawsuit.
    John Caniglia, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2021
  • His family had thought Bolus, who had schizophrenia, would be safer in jail than anywhere else.
    Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Mari Gilbert was stabbed to death in July 2016 by one of her other daughters, Sarra, who suffered from schizophrenia.
    Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 15 July 2023
  • My youngest daughter was diagnosed with PTSD and schizophrenia.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 13 June 2023
  • Osaze Osagie also had schizophrenia and at times his parents had asked the police for help.
    Deborah Kim, ABC News, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Jordan’s neighbor, Lisa, suffers from schizophrenia, and Jordan buys her food and clothes.
    Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The mother told police her daughter suffers from schizophrenia and had been armed with a bat, knives and had access to a gun, according to White.
    Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2022
  • His mother worked in a bank before being admitted to a mental institution for schizophrenia when Quincy was 7; his father was a carpenter who played semi-pro baseball.
    Jennifer Frederick, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024
  • No one gene, however, determines one’s risk of developing schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024

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