non affective psychosis Flashcards
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biggest differences between disorders in this section relate to the: (4)`
- number of symptoms
- severity of symptoms
- course of illness
- presumed cause
other unspecified schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorder diagnosed when:
symptoms of psychosis cause clinically significant distress and do not meet full criteria for any of the disorders in schizophrenia spectrum and there is insufficient info to evaluate course of symptoms
other specified schizophrenia and other psychotic disorder diagnosed when there are these designations: (4)
- persistent auditory hallucinations
- delusions with significant overlapping and mood episodes
- attenuated psychosis syndrome
- delusional symptoms in partner of individual with delusional disorder
folie a deux includes several syndromes in which symptoms:
are transmitted from one person to one or more other with whom the apparent instigator is intimately associated
attenuated psychosis syndrome:
psychotic like symptoms that are below a threshold for full psychosis
brief psychotic disorder diagnostic criteria:
- presence of one or more symptoms and at least 1 must be delusions, hallucinated or disorganized speech
- duration of an episode being at least 1 day but less than one month with eventual full return to premorbid level of functioning
delusional disorder diagnostic criteria:
- presence of one or more delusion with a duration of 1 month or longer
- functioning not markedly impaired
- if mood episodes occurred, these have ben brief relative to other delusional periods
catatonia 12 symptoms:
- stupor
- catalepsy
- waxy flexibility
- mutism
- negativism
- posturing
- mannerism
- stereotypy
- agitation
- grimacing
- echolalia
- echopraxia
stupor:
no psychomotor activity and not actively relating to environment
catalepsy:
passive induction of a posture held against graver
negativism:
no response to instruction of external stimuli
posturing:
spontaneous and active maintenance of a posture against gravity
stereotypy:
repetitive, abnormally frequent, non goal directed movements
echolalia:
mimicking another’s speech
echopraxia:
mimicking another’s movements
who introduced the term schizotype to represent a schizophrenic phenotype?
Sandor rado
who really drove the field of schizophrenic genetic causes?
Paul meehl and presented his theory that made a departure from the held belief that schizophrenia was due to childhood environments
what did Meehl posit?
that a schizogene led to an aberration in synaptic signal selectivity
what did meehl call the aberration in synaptic signal selectivity?
hypokrisia
schizotaxia
disruption of neural functioning due to hypokrisia and disrupted the way that the brain integrated info at a neural level
in the presence of genetic potentiators and disrupted social environments, hypokrisia and schizotaxia also led to:
the development of schizotypy
Meehls definition of schizotypy:
a personality showing ambivalence, aversive drift, deism, autism, cognitive slippage
ambivalence:
tendency to experience divergent emotions towards situations, objects or people simultaneously
dereism:
thinking illogically or away from reality