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What is schizophrenia?

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Disorder that causes a broad range of perceptual, cognitive and behavioural disturbances

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Who gets schizophrenia?

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  • Can begin at any age but is rare after puberty
  • Peak age of onset is early twenties
  • Risk of schizo 50% increased by childhood infection (viral)
  • Drug use is a RF
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ICD 10 uses what to classify symptoms of schizo?

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First rank symptoms

  • Delusions
  • Auditory hallucinations
  • Thought interference
  • Passivity phenomena
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Subtypes of schizophrenia?

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  • Paranoid:
  • Catatonic:
  • Movement disorder predominates
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Aetiology of shcizo?

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  • No single cause identified
  • Daily cannabis use is RF
  • Some genetic factors
  • Dopamine XS is thought to explain positive symptoms
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Examples of first rank symptoms?

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  1. Thought insertion
  2. Delusions of control, influence or passivity, delusional perception
  3. Hallucinatory voices giving running commentary on the patient’s behaviour or discussing them
  4. Persistent delusions of other kinds that are culturally inappropriate and completely impossible
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Summary of what first rank symptoms are?

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Abnormalities in though possession, delusional perception, 3rd person auditory hallucinations, impossible delusions

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Second rank symptoms?

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  1. Persistent hallucinations in any modality, every day at least for a month when accompanied by delusions
  2. Neologisms, incoherent/irrelevant speech
  3. Catatonic behaviour eg waxy flexibility, negativism
  4. Negative symptoms eg marked apathy, poverty of speech, blunting, incongruent emotions
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Summary of 2nd rank symptoms?

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Any type of hallucination
Abnormalities of speech
Catatonic behaviour
Negative symptoms

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Interpolations?

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Insertion of something unrelated/different in the middle of the conversation

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Excitation posturing?

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Actively holding a posture against gravity

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Positive symptoms?

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Hallucinations
Delusions
Passivity phenomena
Disorder of thought form

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Negative symptoms?

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Reduced amount of speech 
Reduced motivation/drive 
Reduced interest and pleasure 
Reduced social interaction 
Blunting of affect
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Paranoid schizo?

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80% of schizos

Characterized by first rank symptoms

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Hebephrenic Schizophrenia?

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  • Affective changes are prominent, delusions and hallucinations are fleeting and fragmentary
  • Behaviours is irresponsible and unpredictable
  • Mannerisms are common
  • Tend to gave shallow and inappropriate mood
  • Thoughts disorganized
  • Speech is incoherent
  • Social isolatey tendency + negative symptoms
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Catatonic schizophrenia?

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  • Movement disorder predominates
  • Alternating between stupor and hyperkinesis
  • Automatic obedience, posturing and waxy flexibility
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General vibe of management of schizo?

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Obtain best results with drug and social treatments

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Antipsychotics in schizo?

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-Used for reduction of symptoms and relapse prevention

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What is schizo meant to be partially due to?

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Firing of aberrant dopaminergic neurons

So theoretically if you block the receptors and reduce effect of firing, this will treat the symptoms

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What are you trying to do with anti=psychotics?

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Block 60-80% of dopamine

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Examples of 1st generation anti-psychs?

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Haloperidol

Chloropromazine

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Examples of 2nd generation anti-sychotic?

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Clozapines
Olanzapine
Quietiapine
Risperidone

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1st generations generally cause more?

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EPSE

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second generation anti-psychs thought to be worse for

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Weight gain
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What causes EPSE?
Disruption of substantia nigra
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EPSE examples
Acute dystonia Tardive dyskinesia Parkinsonism
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Torticollis?
Head tilted down
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Oculogyric crisis?
Prolonged upward gaze of eyes
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Acute dystonia?
Increasing muscle toe occurring in minutes from starting drug
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Tardive dyskinesia onset?
Comes on within weeks and lasts long time despite treatment
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Tardive dyskinesia presnetation?
Involuntary, repetitive oro-facial movement, blinking, grimacing, pouting, lip smacking
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Onset of parkinsonism?
Comes on within weeks to months
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Presentation of parkinsonism?
Parkinson's disease with tremor Rigidity Bradykinesia Gait disturbance
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Treatment of EPSE?
- Treat side effects with anti-cholinergics which reduce ACh and balance system - IF very bad switch anti-psychotics
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Examples of anti-cholinergics?
Procyclidine Trihexyphenidyl Orphenadrine
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What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
Rare but important SE which is fatal
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Neuroleptic means?
Drug that depresses nerve function eg antipsychotics
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Symptoms of NMS?
Increasing muscle tone Hyperthermia Changing pulse
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What does Neuroleptic malignant syndrome cause?
Rhabdomyolysis which can caue AKI leading to coma and death
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Treatment of neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
``` Stop antipsychotic Rapid cooling Renal support Skeletal muscle relaxants May need induced coma Dopamine agonists eg bromocriptine ```
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Antipsychotics do what to prolactin?
Increase in prolactin
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What is akathsia?
Feeling of inner restlessness which causes pacing, rocking from foot to foot an inability to stand still, poor sleep
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S1st line treatment of akathsia?
Usually propranolol
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2nd line treat,ent of akathsia?
Benzodiazepines -Clonazepam
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Other side effects of anti-psycotics?
ACH side effects Action on 5HT receptor causes weight gain Antiadrenergic side effects = postural hypotension Hepatotoxicity Prolonged QT interval Photosensitivity
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Which works best out of all the anti-psychotics for schizophrenia?
Clozapine but causes significant side effects
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Significant SE of clozapine?
Agranulocytosis | -Needs very strict monitoring and is therefore not 1st line but used for resistance cases
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Usually start with what generation of anti-psychotics?
2nd generation
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Compliance issues solution?
Long acting depot medication
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Perisistent delusional disorder?
Systemized fixed delusions, don't tend to have hallucinations
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Schizotypal disorder?
Under DSM this is classed as a personality disorder but under ICF it is classed as a type of psychosis
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Acute and transient psychotic disorder?
Schizophrenia symptoms lasting less than a month
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Induced delusional disorder?
Folie a deux and folie a plusiers a group of people share the same delusions
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Schizoaffective disorder?
Episodic disorder in which both affective and schizophrenic symptoms are present but the criteria for neither is met
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Neurodevelopmental changes in schizophrenia?
Enlarged ventricles, thinner cortices Reduced frontal lobe volume, reduced frontal lobe grey matter and enlarged lateral ventricle volume
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Neurochemical changes in schizophrenia?
Altered dopamine signalling
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What can make symptoms of schizophrenia worse?
Amphetamine
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Indicators of poor prognosis in schizophrenia?
``` Poor pre-morbid adjustment Insidious onset Early onset Long duration of untreated psychosis Cognitive impairment Enlarged ventricles ```
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Indicators of a good prognosis for schizophrenia?
``` Shorter time of untreated psychosis Older age of onset Female gender Marked mood disturbance especially elation Fam history of mood disorder ```

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