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What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a psychosis disease that occurs in 1.1% of the human population and paranoid schizophrenia is one of the most common sub-type. Patients suffering from paranoid schizophrenia can have the following symptoms:
Seeing, hearing, or tasting things that others do not.
Suspiciousness and a general fear of others’ intentions.
Persistent, unusual thoughts or beliefs.
Difficulty thinking clearly.
Withdrawing from family or friends.
A significant decline in self-care.
Catatonia, physically fixed in a position for a long time
Robot and Mental Disease
For human patients, the treatment is often combined with applying medication that suppresses delusions and abnormal thinking, and psychotherapy that helps them to have better self-recognition as well as to engage with their surroundings. When it comes to mental diseases, robots or androids are often applied to either help the patients to feel better or the scientists to have a more clear view of illnesses. One of the examples is the android that is developed in Japan to simulate depressed patients for diagnosis training of psychiatric trainees (Hashimoto et al, 2013).
Two not so serious example of paranoid robot Marvin
Two not so serious example of paranoid robot Marvin
Marvin the original
The newer Marvin
How Would a Paranoid Schizophrenic Robot look?
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