How to Use schizophrenia in a Sentence

schizophrenia

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • But the increase in schizophrenia deaths dwarfed both those conditions.
    — Bywarren Cornwall, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gowan has a close childhood friend who at age 20 began exhibiting signs of schizophrenia.
    — The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • After their son’s death, the Gunners learned that a few years earlier, the donor himself had died and that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    — Sonia Suter, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Because of this, Manoach explains, a patient with schizophrenia may continue hitting the brick wall, getting stuck on the same set of notes as the day before.
    — Lucy Tu, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Williams, who has schizophrenia, was stuck in the Clay County Detention Center for more than a year and a half waiting for a hospital bed to open up.
    — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
  • From the moment he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he was set on a path largely beyond his control.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • Cox lives with his daughter, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and her two children who have special needs.
    — Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2022
  • That sperm donor had also been diagnosed with schizophrenia.
    — Alisyn Camerota, CNN, 5 Sep. 2022
  • Holland said her son was diagnosed with schizophrenia and PTSD six years ago after struggling with drug use since his teens.
    — al, 29 June 2022
  • One patient with schizophrenia shouted insults but the troops didn’t understand his slurred speech.
    — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
  • Barnhart had a history of schizophrenia and depression and had been pulled from the bridge by police a week before her suicide.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Kathy was diagnosed with schizophrenia about three years prior to her disappearance.
    — Nicolás Viñuela, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2024

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