Schizophrenia

Question 1

What is sz?

Answer 1

when an individual experiences non existent stimuli that causes perceptions of things that don’t exist - split from reality

Question 2

5 features?

Answer 2

• affects 1 in 100 people
• 70% hear voices
• 25% have 1 episode and then recover
• 25% have it continually
• 50% have periods of recovery and periods of symptoms

Question 3

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 3

addition to behaviour
- e.g hallucination, hearing voices, delusions, thought insertion
- can be treated
- difficult to measure

Question 4

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 4

take away from normal functioning
- e.g lack of self care, flatness of emotion, social withdrawal
- difficult to treat
- can be objectively measured - questionnaire

Question 5

DSM symptoms:

Answer 5

• hallucinations
• delusions
• catatonic behaviour
• negative symptoms
• disorganised speech

Question 6

What factors are needed for a diagnosis (other than symptoms) ?

Answer 6

• rule out depressive and bipolar disorder
• not caused by drug abuse