reactive schizophrenia

an acute form of schizophrenia that develops in response to precipitating environmental factors, such as extreme stress. The prognosis is generally more favorable than for process schizophrenia. [proposed in 1959 by U.S. psychologists Norman Garmezy (1918–2009) and Eliot H. Rodnick (1911–1999)]

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March 15th 2025

motor neuron pool

a collection of motor neurons whose axons all connect to the same muscle, although the motor neurons may be scattered through a few levels of the spinal cord.