Ch14Schizophrenia

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A psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, and motor abnormalities; comes from the Greek words of “split mind”; symptoms must persist for six months or more for a diagnosis

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Schizophrenia

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A state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways

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Psychosis

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False sensory perceptions

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Hallucinations

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False beliefs

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Delusions

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How many people suffer from Schizophrenia?

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1 of every 100 (1% of population) world wide or 24 million afflicted with it world wide; including 2.5million in US

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What are the 3 main categories for symptoms of schizophrenia?

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Positive symptoms
Negative symptoms
Psychomotor symptoms

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Symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be excesses of thought, emotion, and behavior

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Positive symptoms

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Symptoms of schizophrenia that seems to be deficits of thought, emotion, and behavior; poverty of speech, blunted and flat affect, loss of volition, and social withdrawal

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Negative symptoms

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Symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be unusual movements or gestures

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Psychomotor symptoms

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A disturbance in the production and organization of thought;Can cause great confusion and make communication extremely difficult

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Formal thought disorder

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A common thinking disturbance in schizophrenia, characterized by rapid shifts from one topic of conversation to another (aka derailment)

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Loose associations

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This is by far the most common kind of hallucinations in schizophrenia where people hear sounds and voices

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Auditory hallucinations

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Negative symptom of schizophrenia; A decrease in speech or speech content; aka alogia

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Poverty of Speech

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Negative symptom of schizophrenia; a marked lack of apparent emotions

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Flat affect

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Negative symptom of schizophrenia; marked by apathy, feeling drained of energy and of interests in normal goals, and an inability to start or complete a course of action

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Avolition

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Negative symptom of schizophrenia; withdraw from social environment and attend only to their own ideas and fantasies; has the effect of distancing them further from reality; seems to lead to a breakdown of social skills, including the ability to recognize other people’s needs and emotions accurately

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Social Withdrawal

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A pattern of extreme psychomotor symptoms, found in some forms of schizophrenia, which may include catatonic stupor, rigidity, or posturing

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Catatonia

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Drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking

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Antipsychotic drugs

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A group of antihistamine drugs that became the first group of effective antipsychotic medications

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Phenothiazines

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When does schizophrenia usually emerge?

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Schizophrenia usually emerges during late adolescence or early adulthood and tends to progress through three phases: prodromal, active, and residual

Question 21

This type of schizophrenia is dominated with positive symptoms

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Type 1 schizophrenia

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This type of schizophrenia is dominated by negative symptoms

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Type 2 schizophrenia

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Positive symptom of schizophrenia; displays of emotions that are unsuited to the situation ex: during a tender conversation with his wife, a man suddenly starts yelling obscenities at her and complaining

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Inappropriate Affect