I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
patient
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The need of schizophrenic patients to sometimes withdraw would then be explicable as a protective response from further stimulation.
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Only in the schizophrenic patients were scientists able to find a relationship between behavior changes and the amount of dopamine released.
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Psychological causes Many psychological theories have grown out of the observations of the often abnormal communication styles of families of schizophrenic patients .
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The survey shows the schizophrenic nature of Americans' views on crime.
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Each was admitted as suffering from schizophrenic symptoms.
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In both respects the schizophrenic brain appears to be abnormal.
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It was kind of schizophrenic , like a brain that was gone.
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Like the house, the impression off the landscape was schizophrenic , of richness and desolation equally.
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My several lives were often incompatible, and I led a schizophrenic existence.
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Sometimes the hallucinations associated with small seizures in the temporal lobe have characteristics suggestive of schizophrenic thought, especially paranoia.
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This schizophrenic musical existence dragged on for years.
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We are all deeply schizophrenic about roads.
II. noun
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Bodiless voices, such as a schizophrenic might hear, gave evidence.
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One doctor even diagnosed Mr Page as a paranoid schizophrenic .
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Since September, du Pont has been undergoing treatment at a state psychiatric hospital after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic .
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So what defines a schizophrenic , then?