GUESS the TYPE of SCHIZOPHRENIA Flashcards
What form of schizophrenia presents with BIZARRE delusions with some PASSIVITY phenomena?
- Paranoid Schizophrenia
Predominant AFFECTIVE symptoms, causing CHILDISH behaviour and promoinent thought disorder.
—-Hebephrenic Schizophrenia
List the symptoms of Hebephrenic schizophrenia… (6)
- Shallow and inappropriate MOOD
- Child-like behaviour (giggling, self-satisfied, self-absorbed smile)
- disorganized thought
- Speech rambling and incoherent
- prefers solitude
- presents at 15-25 y.o
Motor abnormalities, waxy flexibility and posturing
- —CATATONIC schizohrenia
- —-waxy flexibility: pt can leave their limb in an unusual position for a long time WITHOUT any distress.
Which schizophrenia type presents with PREDOMINANT social withdrawal, odd behaviour, emotional blunting
—-with NO preceding hallucinations…
- SIMPLE SCHIZOPHRENIA
- —-insidious ONSET of NEGATIVE symptoms without preceding delusions or hallucinations
Which schizophrenic type presents with predominant SOCIAL WITHDRAWAL with a PREVIOUS HX of marked HALLUCINATIONS and DELUSIONS?
- Residual Schizophrenia
What medications should be best avoided in pts with Parkinsonism and Lewy Body Dementia?
- Anti-psychotics
What is the risk of a child of a schizophrenic developing schizopohrenia?
-10-15%
What is the % risk of a MZ twin being schizophrenic?
46%—-non-genetic factors need to contribute to bring about schizophrenia in a individual….
Are family influences a causal factor to schizophrenia? Do they outweigh genetic contributions?
- –NO, they are exacerbating factors…NOT causal.
- –NO, those genetically predisposed are still HIGHYL likely to develop schizophrenia despite growing up in a healthy, supportive family
On a PET scan, in which condition is one most likely to see an OVERACTIVITY of the prefrontal cortex?
OCD
