Schizophrenia

Question 1

Name some factors of schizophrenia associated with a poor prognosis

Answer 1

Longer duration of untreated psychosis
Early onset
Gradual onset
Male
Negative symptoms
Family history
Low IQ
Low socioeconomic status
Social isolation
Significant psychiatric history
Continued substance misuse

Question 2

Schizophrenia is a complex chronic psychotic condition - essentially an impairment of…

Answer 2

perception and thinking

Question 3

What are first rank symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 3

Delusional perceptions
Auditory hallucinations
Thought disorders
Passivity phenomenon (thoughts/feelings/actions not own but controlled by external agent)

Question 4

Name some negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 4

affective blunting
Alogia
Apathy
Anhedonia
Attentional impairment

Question 5

What are some risk factors for developing schizophrenia?

Answer 5

Family history
traumatic childhood events
Childhood cannabis use
Birth trauma (brain development)
Maternal poor health
Urban living
Emigrating to more developed country

Question 6

What are hallmark symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia?

Answer 6

Prominent paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations

Question 7

What is hebephrenic schizophrenia?

Answer 7

Disordered thought/affect
V chaotic and disorganised
Less prominent delusions/hallucinations