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Schizophrenia Flashcards

1
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Eugen Bleuler is associated with what?

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Terming the condition

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2
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What are the three categories of symptoms?

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  1. Negative
  2. Cognitive
  3. Positive
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Name the three types of positive symptoms

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Hallucinations, delusions and thought disorders

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How are negative symptoms defined?

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Absence of normal behaviours

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Give 2 examples of negative symptoms

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Speech poverty, anhedonia, flattened emotional response, lack of initiative, persistence, social withdrawal

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What cognitive symptoms are there?

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Lower performance on IQ tests, planning and info processing deficits, working mem deficits, sensory-motor gating and anti-saccade task deficits, poor oculomotor function

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What area of the frontal lobe specifically causes dysfunction?

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Dorso-lateral PFC

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What are the 2 tests that patients are slower at?

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Stroop test and wisconsin card sort task

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What are sensory motor gating deficits?

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Difficulty screening out irrelevant stimuli

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The event related potential that occurs approx 50 ms after the presentation of a stimulus is called what?

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P50 wave

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In the P50 signal task what % of the wave is diminished to the second click in healthy vs schiz ppts?

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H = 80%, S = no change

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What type of eye movements do patients show in the oculomotor task?

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Catch up saccades

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Who found that ventricle size of patients was more than twice as big as that of normal control subjects?

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Weinburger and Wyatt, 82

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There was less grey matter in what three brain regions? (82- Weinburger and Wyatt study)

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Temporal, frontal and hippocampus

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15
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What gene is involved in the regulation of neurogenesis, neuronal migration, postsynaptic density and mitochondria function?

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DISC1 gene

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The presence of the DISC1 gene increases the chance o schizophrenia by a factor of what?

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50

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The DISC1 gene also increases the incidence of 2 other conditions, what are these?

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Bipolar and autism

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18
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How does paternal age affect incidence rates?

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After puberty they rapidly dividing (every 16 days), mutations in the spermatocytes which are the cells that produce sperm

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What is a dichorionic MZ twin?

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When the blastocyst division occurs before day 4 of development

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What is the physical difference between di and monochorionic twins?

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Di do not share a placenta

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David and Phelps found the concordance rate for di versus monochorionic twins was what %?

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D = 32%
M = 60%

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22
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What are examples of early events that cause schiz in the early model?

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Infections, nutritional deficiencies

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What early evidence suggests deviations in brain development? (Walker et al)

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Children with schiz showed more negative affect in their facial expressions, and more abnormal movements

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What study did Schiffman et al 2004 do?

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Videotaped children eating lunch, blind raters found that the children who later developed schizophrenia displayed less sociability and less psychomotor function

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25
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Name the three models of schiz

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Early model, late development model and two-hit model

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26
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What neurotransmitter hypothesis explains schiz?

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Dopamine hypothesis

27
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Overactivity in what area causes the positive symptoms and underactivity in what area causes the negative and cognitive symptoms?

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Mesolimbic and mesocoritcal

28
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What do these drugs: amphetamines, cocaine, methylphenidate and L-DOPA show about the DA hypothesis?

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They are all dopamine agonists, and they all produce symptoms that resemble the positive symptoms of schiz

29
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What type of drugs block dopamine receptors and alleviate symptoms?

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Antipsychotics

30
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Who discovered the drug chlorpromazine as the first antipsychotic?

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Henri Laborit

31
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What type of DA receptors do these antagonists block?

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D2 type family

32
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If a drug has low affinity what does this mean?

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It binds loosly to the receptor and therefore a higher dose is needed

33
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What radioactive tracer is used in SPECT studies?

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Iodobenzamine (IBZM)

34
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What is a reversible ligand?

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It will compete with DA for binding to that receptor

35
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What did Dargham et al, 1998 measure in their study?

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Dopamine displacement after treatment with amphetamines

36
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The study showed that patients with schiz had higher levels of displacement. What does this mean in terms of dopamine?

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That they were releasing more dopamine in response to amphetamine compared to controls

37
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The study also showed that higher displacement correlated with what type of symptoms?

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Positive symptoms

38
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Long-term treatment with typical antipsychotic drugs leads to what sort of symptoms?

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Those resembling Parkinsons - slowness in movement, lack of facial expression and general weakness

39
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What happens to patients with tardive dyskinesia?

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They are unable to stop moving

40
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Name 2 differences between A-typical and typical antiphsychotics.

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  1. A-typ improves both positive and negative symptoms
  2. A-typ have lower affinity and therefore don’t produce the parkinsonian side-effects
41
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Name the first a-typical antipsychotic

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Clozapine

42
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Give positives and negatives of clozapine

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P = reduces suicide rate
N = side neffects such as weight gain, sedation, tachycardia

43
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What role do NMDA receptors have during early development?

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Neural migration, survival, pruning, plasticity and apoptosis

44
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What is the glutamate hypo-functioning hypothesis and what does it explain?

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NMDA hypofunction on GABA-ergic interneurons in the PFC
Explains treatment resistant symptoms, why the onset is early adulthood and why the disorder is associated with structural change

45
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Blocking the NMDA receptor has what affect?

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Leads to the excessive release of glutamate

46
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PCP and ketamine are examples of what type of drug?

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NMDA antagonists

47
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What do glutamate agonists do to symptoms of schiz?

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Improves both positive and negative symptoms

48
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Describe the task used in the Jentsch 1997 study

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Monkeys were given PCP for 2 weeks and tested a week later on a task that involved reaching around a barrier for a piece of food

49
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What does it mean if an NMDA receptor is hypoactive

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The activity of the NMDA receptor is inhibited

50
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What were the results of the Jentsch 1997 study?

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Performance on the task depends on the function of the PFC, whether animals had lesions here, and control monkeys performed well but depended on PCP treatment

51
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What causes the lack of inhibition of glutamate?

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Hypofunctioning NMDA receptors at the GABA ergic interneuron in the prefrontal cortex, disinhibits the GABA ergic interneuron, which leads to increased glutamate release

52
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What does increased glutamate lead to?

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Over excitation into the mesolimbic system (VTA) which causes the release of dopamine

53
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In the mesocortical system, how are dopamine levels low?

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Increased glutamate caused by the hypo-functioning NMDA receptor, leads to high excitation at the additional GABA receptor in the PFC, which leads to high levels of inhibition and lower dopamine release

54
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What is the role of microglial cells and what is different in patients?

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The brains immune cells and they are hyperactive

55
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What have animal studies shown about pro-inflammatory agents and schiz symptoms?

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They increase symptoms

56
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GWAS studies showed what genes are involved in the heritability of schiz?

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DRD2, GLU receptor subunits

57
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Where is the most significant association found and what region of genes does it include?

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Chromosome 6 which includes a region of genes involved in acquired immunity - MHC

58
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What does it mean if a microglia is amoeboid?

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It has swollen up and is releasing chemicals

59
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What other role does microglia have in early brain development?

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Neuronal cell death and survival, synaptogenesis and pruning

60
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How might early infection lead to schiz according to the microglial theory?

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Early infection primes the microglia, which may interact with the developing cells in the nervous system, leading to rearrangements of the sympathetic circuitry

61
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How does oestrogen play a protective role?

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17B-estradiol is the mos potent form, the second peak of onset for women may be linked to the decrease in oestrogen following menopause

62
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Name the environmental factors that are related to spread of disease and infection

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Season of birth, population density and viral epidemics

63
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What are the other environmental factors that increase schiz?

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Vitamin D deficiencies, substance abuse and prenatal malnutrition

64
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What factors would affect vitamin D levels?

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Urban areas, those in more extreme latitudes, and those with more melanin

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