II. Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

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A spectrum as it applies to mental disorder is a range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits

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Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

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• Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits
  Cognitive or perceptual distortions.
• Abnormalities of beliefs, thinking, and perception are below the threshold for the diagnosis of a
  psychotic disorder.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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• Characterized by at least 1 month of delusions but no other psychotic symptoms.
• The person has not met criteria for schizophrenia
• Functional impairment within the specific impact of the delusion

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Delusional Disorder

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One or more of the symptoms of schizophrenia that lasts more than 1 day and remits by 1 month.

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Characterized by a symptomatic presentation equivalent to that of schizophrenia except for its
duration (less than 6 months) and the absence of a requirement for a decline in functioning

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Schizophreniform Disorder

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Two or more of the following symptoms for at least 1 month; one symptom should be either 1, 2, or 3:

1) delusions
2) hallucinations
3) disorganized speech
4) disorganized (or catatonic) behavior
5) negative symptoms (diminished motivation or emotional expression)
- Functional impairment in one or more areas
- Signs of disorder for at least 6 months

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Schizophrenia

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A mood episode and the active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia occur together and were preceded or are followed by at least 2 weeks of delusions or hallucinations without prominent mood symptoms.

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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• Poverty of Speech

- Reflects lack of thinking or motivation to speak.

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Alogia

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• Abscence or insufficienct of normal behavior

- 25% Experience

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Type 2 Schizophrenia

Negative Symptoms

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• Blunted affect

- Face may remain immobile and body language is unresponsice.

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Affective flattening

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4 A’s of Schizophrenia

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• Affect
• Ambivalence
• Autism
• Associations

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Lack of pleasure

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Anhedonia

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• Difficulty in focusing and maintaining attention.

- deficits in the working memory (ability to hold information and manipulate it)

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Attention impairment

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Contrasting feelings towards the same person at the same time.

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Ambivalence

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False sensory perception

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Hallucination

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Very slow motor responses

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Stupor

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Loss of motivation

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Avolition (or Apathy)

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Abnormal lack of energy

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Anergia

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Disorganized behavior that affects unresposiveness to the world.

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Catatonia

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Lack of interest in social interaction

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Asocial behavior (Asociality)

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• Active manifestations
• Obvious signs
• Distortions of normal behavior
• 50%-70% experience

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Type 1 Schizophrenia

Positive Symptoms

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• Trouble organizing their daily routines of bathing, dressing properly, and eating regularly.
• Engage in socially acceptable behavior (e.g. public masturbation)
• Many are disheveled and dirty.

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Abnormal or Disorganized Thought and Speech

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• Trouble organizing their daily routines of bathing, dressing properly, and eating regularly.
• Engage in socially acceptable behavior (e.g. public masturbation)
• Many are disheveled and dirty.

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Abnormal or Disorganized Thought and Speech

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• Frightening to others
• Display unpredictable and apparently untriggered agitation.
• sudden shouting, swearing may be responses to hallucinations and delusions.

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Bizaare or Disorganized Behavior

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Part of the brain concerned with Hallucinations

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Broca's Area

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Visual hallucinations involving geometric shapes such as tunnels and funnels, spirals, lattices, or cobwebs.

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Geometric Hallucinations

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A hallucination involving sight, which may consist of formed images, such as of people, or of unformed images, such as flashes of light.

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Visual Hallucinations

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Belief that one is going to be harmed, harassed, and so forth by an individual, organization, or other group.

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Persecutory Delusions

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Inhibited Dosolateral Prefrontal Cortex

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Schizophrenia

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Experience of hallucinations, delusions, and loss of contact with reality

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Psychosis

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Duration of disturbance of Schizophrenia

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At least 6 months

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Gender Prevalence of Schizophrenia

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Males

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Most common type of Hallucinations

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Auditory Hallucinations

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Most common type of Hallucinations

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Auditory Hallucinations

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An individual's false belief that another person is in love with him or her.

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Erotomanic type (Delusions)

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Preoccupations regarding health and organ function.

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Somatic type (Delusions)

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An individual's conviction that a major catasthrophe will occur.

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Nihilistic Type (Delusions)

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Believing that you are communicatinf directly with a higher being and is being listened to from up above.

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Religious Type (Delusions)

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A false belief that one's sexual partner is unfaithful

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Jealous type (delusions)

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A false belief of inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person.

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Grandiose type (delusions)

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A false belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast out loud so that they can be perceived by others.

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Thought broadcasting

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A delusion that certain of one's thoughts are not one's own, but rather are inserted into one's mind.

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Though Insertion

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Believing that people are talking about him or her.

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Reference type (delusions)

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False belief that another person, group of people, or external force controls one's general thoughts, feelings, impulses, or behavior.

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Control type (delusions)

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Significanr reduction in the intensity of emotional expression.

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Blunted affect

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A pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion).

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Affect

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Discordance between affective expression and the content of sppech or ideation.

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Inappropriate Affect

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Mild reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression.

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Restricted or Constricted Affect

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Passive induction of posture held against gravity.

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Catalepsy

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Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often occuring in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise.

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Cataplexy

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Episodes of sudden bilateral loss of muscle tone resulting in the individual collapsing, often occuring in association with intense emotions such as laughter, anger, fear, or surprise.

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Cataplexy

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How do you regard delusion?

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It is regarded as delusion only when the judgment is so extreme to defy credibility.

Question 52

Misperceptions of real external stimuli. | Visual hallucinations should be distinguished from this.

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Illusions

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A hallucination involving the perception of odor, such as burning rubber or decaying fish

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Olfactory Hallucinations

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A hallucination involving the perception of taste (usually unpleasant)

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Gustatory Hallucinations

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A hallucination involvinf the perception of sound, most commonly of voice.

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Auditory Hallucinations

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Odd and inappropriate facial expressions unrelated to situation. (as seen in individuals with catatonia)

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Grimace (Grimacing)

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Second most common type of hallucination

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Visual Hallucinations

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Neurotransmitter concerned with schizophrenia

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Dopamine

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Inhibit prolactin release

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Tuberoinfundibular Pathways

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Duration of Delusional Disorder

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At least 1 month

Question 61

A mental condition that causes clinically significant distress and is distinguished by the onset of mild psychotic-like symptoms that do not meet the full criteria of one of the psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or delusional disorder. - with one or more symptoms of schizophrenia BUT is aware of these unusual experiences.

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Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

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- A delusion that develop in an individual in the context of a close relationship with another person who has an already established delusion. - The delusion is similar in context to that of the person with whom they share a close relationship

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Shared Psychotic Disorder | Folie A Deux

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Coined the term, Schizophrenia

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Paul Eugene BLEULER

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One of the phases of Schizophrenia, | Present before people go into the acute phase of schizophrenia.

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Prodromal Phase

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A phase of schizophrenia. | Present after they emerge from schizophrenia

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Residual Phase

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A phase characterized by hallucinations, paranoid delusions, and extremely disorganized speech and behaviors.

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Active or Acute Phase

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When a client partially shows disturbance or any sign of schizophrenia returning.

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Partial Remission

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When the client no longer shows disturbance or any sign of schizophrenia returning.

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Complete Remission

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The pathological, parrotlike, and apparently senseless repetition (echoing) of a word or phrase just spoken by another person.

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Echolalia

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Mimicking the movements of another.

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Echopraxia

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Mimicking the movements of another.

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Echopraxia