Schizophrenia

Question 1

Symptoms

Answer 1

• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Disorganised Speech
• Grossly Disorganised Behaviour (catatonia)

Question 2

Delusions

Answer 2

Strongly held, fixed beliefs that have no basis in reality

Question 3

Psychotic Symptoms

Answer 3

• Psychological problems reflecting serious distortions in reality

Question 4

Hallucinations

Answer 4

sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an external stimulus

Question 5

Catatonic symptoms

Answer 5

• involve motor problems; holding body in rigid or bizarre positions; curling up; pacing aimlessly; refusing to move/speak
• frenzied motor activity

Question 6

Schizophrenia: Brain, Biochemical and Genetic findings

Answer 6

Brain Abnormalities: ventricles typically enlarged in individuals with schizophrenia
- decreases temporal lobes; activation of the amygdala and hippocampus and the symmetry of brains hemispheres

Neurotransmitter Differences
- abnormalities in dopamine receptors

Genetic Influences

Diathesis-stress model

Question 7

Diaries is-stress Model

Answer 7

Perspective proposing that mental disorders are a joint product of genetic predispositions and stressors that trigger this vulnerability