Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia

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Is a thought process disorder where it is characterised by disruption to thoughts , precpetions and belief

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Two different types of devolping schizophrenia

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The onset of schizophrenia can be acute where behaviour changes over a short period of time
Chronic is when a gradual deterioration in mental health that devolves slowly over time

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5 clinical characteristics of schizophrenia

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Perceptual symptoms
Social symptoms
Cognitive symptoms
Affective/emotional symptoms
Behavioural symptoms

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Perceptual symptoms

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Auditory hallucinations these are the most common type of hallucinations but there are others like see taste feel etc

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Social symptoms

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Social withdraw- not taking part or enjoying social situations

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Cognitive symptoms

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Delusions -believing things that are true people can have delusions of grandeur where they believe they are more important then they are or paranoia where they believe someone is out to get them

Language impairments -irrelevant and incoherent speech they may also repeat sounds others say and speak nonsense and speech poverty (limited replies)

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Affective / emotional symptoms

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Avoltion - lack of drive , motivation or interest in achieving goals
Lack of interest in hygiene
Lack of emotion
Inappropriate emotions

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Behavioural symptoms

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Stereotyped behaviour - continuously repeating actions which are often strange
Psychomotor disturbance- not having control over your muscles

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Positive symptoms and negative of schizophrenia

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Positive - hallucinations,delsuisons jumbled speech disorganised behaviour
Negative -speech poverty , lack of emotion ,avoliation , lack of ability to

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Descriptive validity

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How similar inviduals diagnosed are with the disorder are

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Aetiological validity

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How similar the cause of the disorder is for each suffer

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Predictive validity

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How useful the diagnostic categories are for predicting the right treatment

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Comorbidty

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Having two or more conditions at the same time

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Biological explanation for schizophrenia

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Inherited factors and dysfunction of brain activity in the development of a mental disorder

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Genetic factors explanation for schizophrenia

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Inherited factors make certain behaviour more likely to devils a behaviour or metal disorder

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Studies which supposed gentic factors and biological explanation

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Family studies
Twin studies
Adoption studies

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Dopamine hypothesis

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Claims that an excess of dopamine causes the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Subtypes of schizophrenia

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Disorganised type
Catatonic type
Paranoid type
Undifferentiated type
Residual type

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Symptoms of disorganised type

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Disorganised speech and behaviour and doesn’t meet criteria for catanotic type

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Symptoms of Catanotic type .

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Immobility or stupor excessive motor activity, extreme negativity, posturing , stereotyped moves , prominent mannerisms and prominent grimacing

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Symptoms of paranoid type

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Pre occupation, frequent auditory hallucinations, no catatonic behaviour

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Symptoms of undifferentiated type

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Variation between symptoms, not fitting into a particular type of

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Symptoms of residual type

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Absence of prominent delusions , and all other positive symptoms instead has a presence of negative symptoms

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Joseph (2004)

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Showed concordance rate of 40% and 7.4%

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Amphetamines

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A dopamine agonist this stimulates nerve cells containing dopamine causing the synapse to be flooded .