Tony believes that he is Thomas Edison and he is convinced that his neighbors are spies who are trying to steal his inventions.He believes the neighbors break into his house and search for plans for new inventions when he is not home.Tony's symptoms are MOST consistent with those seen in

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Tony's belief that he is Thomas Edison and his conviction that his neighbors are spies trying to steal his inventions are both delusions, which are a common symptom of paranoid schizophrenia. The fact that he believes that the neighbors break into his house even though there is no evidence to support this belief also suggests paranoid schizophrenia. The other types of schizophrenia (undifferentiated, catatonic, and disorganized) do not necessarily involve these specific symptoms.

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