Schizophrenia - Description Flashcards
What is schizophrenia a type of?
Psychosis making it difficult for sufferers to understands reality as it really is
What are the positive symptoms?
- Hallucinations
- Delusions
- Disordered thinking
What are hallucinations?
Lewandowski (2009)?
Hearing voices or seeing, tasting, smelling or feeling things others do not
Lewandowski - 20% have tactile hallucinations e.g. formication - resembles small insects crawling on or under the skin
What are delusions?
Examples?
holding strong beliefs that others around you do not share/find strange.
Paranoid - unfounded belief that someone wants to harm them
Grandiose/delusions of grandeur - inaccurate beliefs that one has special powers, wealth or identity
What is disorganised thinking?
thoughts and speech seems to jump from one topic to another for no apparent reason
and show now logical flow
What are negative symptoms?
- Alogia
- Avolition
- Anhedonia
- Flatness of effect
- Catatonic behaviour
What is Alogia?
Poverty of speech
What is avolition?
Lack of motivation
What is anhedonia?
Lack of enjoyment
What is flatness of effect?
Display no emotion
What is catatonic behaviour?
Example?
Fast, repetitive, useless movement to little or no movement
Echopraxia - mimic movement of other around them
What was ICD-10?
Subtypes?
used as a way to diagnose those with schizophrenia
- Paranoid - mainly characterised by paranoid delusions
- Disorganised - speech/movement issues, muddled speech/disorganised thoughts
- Catatonic - movement issues, paralysis, echopraxia/echolalia
Have been removed from ICD-11
