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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia, a serious mental disorder with psychosis, delusions, hallucinations, negative and cognitive symptoms; affects 1 in 300 people, onset in late adolescence, treated with antipsychotics and psychosocial care.

Schizophrenia research

Schizophrenia research: the scientific study of schizophrenia's causes, neurobiology, and treatment, anchored by journals such as Schizophrenia Research (Elsevier, 1988) and Schizophrenia Bulletin (1969), WHO cross-cultural studies, and current work on genetics, negative symptoms, and AI.

Schizophrenia, continuous

Schizophrenia, continuous is an ICD-11 course specifier, code 6A20.2, describing schizophrenia whose full symptoms persist through nearly the entire illness course for at least one year.

Schizophrenia, first episode

Schizophrenia, first episode (ICD-11 6A20.0) is the first occurrence of schizophrenia meeting full diagnostic criteria. Covers symptoms, the 3-5 year critical period, duration of untreated psychosis, antipsychotic response rates, and NIMH RAISE coordinated specialty care.

Schizophrenic (JC Chasez album)

Schizophrenic is the debut studio album by American singer JC Chasez, released by Jive Records on February 24, 2004, after his group NSYNC went on hiatus.

Schizophyllum

Schizophyllum, a genus of wood-rotting basidiomycete fungi (split gills, Schizophyllum commune), known for tetrapolar mating with thousands of mating types, schizophyllan, and respiratory infections.

Schizoposting

Schizoposting is internet slang for posting memes as though one were having a mental breakdown, drawing on schizophrenia and conspiracy themes; it originated on 4chan in 2016 and spread widely after 2019.

Schizopteridae

Schizopteridae (jumping ground bugs), family Reuter, 1891 of minute litter bugs (Dipsocoromorpha), Heteroptera; largest dipsocoromorphan family, over 300 species in ~56 genera, 0.8–2 mm, jumping hind legs, tropical leaf-litter dwellers.

Schizosaccharomyces

Schizosaccharomyces (fission yeasts) is a genus of ascomycete fungi in Taphrinomycotina that divides by fission, not budding. Includes the model organism S. pombe, isolated from African millet beer; species counts range from four to seven across sources.

Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a model organism

Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the fission yeast, is a rod-shaped unicellular eukaryote model organism with three chromosomes and a 12.6 Mb genome, famous for cell-cycle research that earned Paul Nurse the 2001 Nobel Prize and for metazoan-like features absent from budding yeast.

Schizotypal personality disorder

Schizotypal personality disorder (STPD, SPD): a DSM-5 personality disorder and ICD-11 schizophrenia-spectrum condition with eccentric behavior, cognitive-perceptual distortions, and social deficits; prevalence about 0.6-4.6%, 20-40% convert to psychosis.

Schizotypy

Schizotypy: a continuum of schizophrenia-like personality traits in the general population, also called psychosis proneness; coined by Rado (1953), modeled by Meehl, measured by SPQ and O-LIFE, with positive, negative, and disorganized dimensions.

Schkopau

Schkopau is a municipality in the Saalekreis district of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, about 10 km south of Halle, best known for the Buna chemical works founded in 1936 and now operated by Dow.

Schkortleben

Schkortleben, a Saale village in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, part of Weißenfels since 2010 with Kriechau; first recorded about 1300 as Zcurtelebe, manor owned by the Biesenrodt, Breitenbauch, and Scharf families until 1945.

Schladminger Tauern (Austria)

Schladminger Tauern: about 40 km long Austrian mountain range, highest part of the Niedere Tauern in Styria and Salzburg, culminating at Hochgolling 2,862 m; non-glacierized crystalline range famed for 76 cirques, Klafferkessel lakes, mining history, and the Schladminger Tauern High Trail.

Schlafes Bruder

Schlafes Bruder (Brother of Sleep) is a 1995 German-Austrian drama by Joseph Vilsmaier based on Robert Schneider's novel, about musical genius Elias Alder who stops sleeping and dies at 22; it won German Film Awards and a Golden Globe nomination.

Schlagenheim

Schlagenheim is the debut studio album by the English rock band black midi, released on 21 June 2019 through Rough Trade Records and shortlisted for the 2019 Mercury Prize.

Schlager music

Schlager (German for "hit") is a European popular-music genre with light, catchy melodies and sentimental German lyrics, shaped in 19th-century sheet music culture, postwar West Germany, and Eurovision, with stars like Helene Fischer.

Schlagerboom

Schlagerboom is a large annual German-language schlager television show on Das Erste, hosted by Florian Silbereisen since its first edition in 2016 at the Westfalenhalle Dortmund, billed as Europe's largest schlager live show.

Schlagerparty

A Schlagerparty is a themed club night, boat party, or arena event built around singalong German-language pop, a format first staged in Hamburg in 1997.

Schlagerplanet

Schlagerplanet, marketed as Schlagerplanet Radio, is a German-language schlager radio station and web platform launched in 2015 and wholly owned by Kiel-based Regiocast since 2016.

Schleich

Schleich is a German toy manufacturer based in Munich, founded by Friedrich Schleich in 1935, best known for hand-painted plastic animal, dinosaur, and horse figurines.

Schleicher ASK 21

The Schleicher ASK 21 is a two-seat glass-fiber training glider built by Alexander Schleicher in Germany, first flown in 1979 and still widely used for instruction.

Schleifring (company)

Schleifring GmbH is a German manufacturer of slip rings and contactless rotary joints, founded in 1974 and headquartered in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich, supplying medical, industrial, and defense markets.

Schlenk line

A Schlenk line is laboratory glassware with two parallel manifolds, one under vacuum and one filled with inert gas, used to handle air- and moisture-sensitive compounds; it is named after Wilhelm Schlenk.

Schlesinger (lunar crater)

Schlesinger is a 97.28 km lunar impact crater on the Moon's far side at 47.09°N, 138.99°W, IAU-named in 1970 for American astronomer Frank Schlesinger (1871-1943), with satellite craters A, B, and M.

Schlesinger Library

Schlesinger Library (Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America), founded 1943 at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, is the leading US research library on women's and gender history, with 4,600+ manuscript collections and 150,000 volumes.

Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's northernmost federal state between the North Sea and Baltic Sea, capital Kiel; founded 23 August 1946, about 2.95 million people, Danish and Frisian minorities, and a wind-energy economy.

Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and adjacent areas

Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea and adjacent areas (Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer), Ramsar Site no. 537 since 1991, 454,988 ha, 40% of the Wadden Sea; national park, UNESCO biosphere reserve, World Heritage component, and major waterbird site.

Schleswig–Holstein question

The Schleswig–Holstein question, or Schleswig-Holsteinische Frage, was a 19th-century dispute over the status of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, settled by the war of 1864.