Lecture 8 - Psychosis Flashcards
(15 cards)
Which sub clinical symptoms are common in people without diagnosable mental illness?
Magical thinking
Paranoid thinking
Unusual visual or other sensory experiences
Gandzfeld effect
Why are psychotic disorders grouped together?
Because of similar symptoms, not because of similar Etiology
Which behaviours/ inner experiences can be used to define psychotic?
Delusions and/or hallucinations (with absence of insight)
Hallucinations with insight
Definition that includes other positive symptoms
Level of functional impairment is often important
What are the 6 types of psychotic disorders?
Schizophrenia Schizophreniform disorder Schizoaffective disorser Delusional disorder Brief psychotic disorder Other: shared psychotic disorder
What are positive psychotic symptoms?
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized thoughts and speech
Disorganized behaviour
What are negative psychotic symptoms
Avolition
Alogia
Affective flattening
What is the most common hallucination ?
Auditory
What are some catatonic motor behaviours? (Marked decrease in reactivity to the environment)
Catatonic stupor, rigidity, negativism, posturing, excitement
What is schizoaffective disorder?
o A period of time in which criteria are met for a mood disorder and symptoms of schizophrenia, but with psychotic symptoms present when there are no mood symptoms
What is schiziphreniform disorder
o Exact same diagnostic criteria as schizophrenia but with a shorter duration (when it’s only been a month – 6 months – we don’t wanna diagnose schizophrenia too soon so we would use this)
What is brief psychotic disorder
o At least one symptom of psychosis, but for less than one month, with eventual full return to premorbid functioning
What is delusional disorder?
oPresence of one or more delusions that last at least one month and no other psychotic features… they can carry on with their life not perfectly but they can still do their job
What is the most common subtypes of delusional disorder
Persecutory
What is shared psychotic disorder ?
o A delusion that develops in an individual who is involved in a close relationship with another person (the “inducer” or “primary case”)
What’s the difference between psychosis and mania
Flight of ideas vs disorganized speech
Grandiosity vs grandiose delusions
Depressive symptoms vs negative symptoms
Depression usually precedes mania, but less often psychosis
Onset is usually sudden in bipolar, insidious in psychosis
