Neuroscience Week 8: Psychotic Disorders Flashcards
(43 cards)
Title

Objectives

Psychotic Disorders description
Psychiatric disorders with core symptoms of hallucinations and/or delusions (psychosis)
Psychotic Disorders examples
- brief psychotic disorder
- Schizophreniform
- Schizophrenia
- Delusional disorder (persecutory, grandiose, erotomanic, jealous, somatic and mixes
- Schizoaffective disorder

Epidemiology of schizophrenia & psychotic disorders

Schizophrenia DSM 5

Psychotic disorders symptom grouping

Other symptoms reliably associated with schizophrenia
5 listed

Hallucinations description

Delusions description

Disorganization

The most heritable cluster of symptoms in schizophrenia
Disorganization

Disorganization cause
may literally arise from a deficit in communication between parts of the brain
Tracts disrupted in schizophrenia

Disorganization description

Disorganized thought
- disorganized concepts & disorganized speech
- impaired abstraction
Disorganized behavior
3 listed
- inappropriate affect
- posturing, catatonia mannerisms
- poor attention
Inappropriate affect description

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Avolition description and components

Restricted affect description and components

Negative symptom risks

possibly the most disabling symptom of schizophrenia

Other common symptoms of schizophrenia



















