How to Use schizophrenia in a Sentence

schizophrenia

noun
  • The rest were healthy people and those with schizophrenia.
    Gina Kolata, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Patients have a 30-fold increase in the risk of schizophrenia.
    Claudia Dreifus, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Most are poor and homeless, and many have schizophrenia, says Ms. Tong.
    Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2021
  • 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
  • The police said that the stranger was Waldo Mejia, a man with a history of schizophrenia.
    Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Six months later, the FDA approved the first new drug for schizophrenia in 30 years, Cobenfy.
    Alice Park, TIME, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Kathy Jawor had schizophrenia and had been in and out of mental institutions in her adult life.
    Freep.com, 16 May 2021
  • As a teenager, Dawn tried to research mental illness and schizophrenia at the library.
    Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Some of the family try to avoid discussions about schizophrenia.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • For a spirited hour and a half during a stand-up-comedy livestream on Saturday, to be the child of a parent with schizophrenia was the norm.
    Ada Tseng, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In the early 1900s, autism was described as a symptom of the most severe cases of schizophrenia, and it was considered a psychiatric disorder for many years.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 13 Feb. 2025

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