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Please define the following key terms. Show Who? What? Where? When? Why Important?
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Ritalin

A stimulant medication used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and certain sleeping disorders, known chemically as methylphenidate.

Prescribed

Recommended or authorized by a medical professional to be used in a specific way or amount.

Schizophrenia

A long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in the relation between thought, emotion, and behavior, leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation.

Positive Symptoms

Symptoms of schizophrenia characterized by the presence of psychotic behaviors not seen in healthy people, such as hallucinations or delusions.

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