Schizophrenia

Question 1

schizophrenia

Answer 1

psychiatric disorder characterized by a breakdown in relation between thought, emotion, and behavior which leads to faulty relationships, skewed perception, and inappropriate actions while withdrawing from reality

Question 2

symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 2

positive symptoms: involving excess or distortion of normal function such as delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate affect, incoherent speech/thought, odd behavior

negative symptoms: involving a reduction or loss of normal function such as affective flattening, decrease in speech, motivation, and inability to experience pleasure

Question 3

treatment of schizophrenia

Answer 3

antischizophrenic drugs such as chlorpromazine, which decrease dopamine activity by blocking its receptors

Question 4

cause of schizophrenia

Answer 4

people inherit a potential for schizophrenia that must be activated, sometimes by early experiences which alter neurodevelopment; excess of dopamine receptor activity

Question 5

how schizophrenia affects patient

Answer 5

onset in early adulthood, dissociate from reality as their brain perceives everything differently and they become completely lost in their world… hallucinations, delusions, etc so they lose ability to participate in regular society