The term for a mental disorder characterized by positive and negative symptoms is spelled:

A) scitzofrenia.
B) schitzophrenia.
C) schizophrenia.
D) schizofrenia.

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.

Negative Symptoms

In psychiatry, refers to a reduction or absence of normal behaviors or feelings, often associated with schizophrenia.