Schizophrenia

Question 1

% of homeless people with schiz.

Answer 1

10-20%

Question 2

Age of onset

Answer 2

16-25

Question 3

Suicide rates

Answer 3

8-10%

Question 4

Amount of canadian

Answer 4

300,000– 1/12 of hospital beds

Question 5

Costs

Answer 5

6.85 billion

Question 6

% of patients with auditroy hallucinations

Answer 6

70%

Question 7

Postive Symptoms

Answer 7

Exaggerated, distorted adaptations of normal behaviour– delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought and speech

Question 8

Negative Symptoms

Answer 8

Absence of typical behaviours and experiences

Question 9

Avolition

Answer 9

Apathy and loss of motivation

Question 10

Anhedonia

Answer 10

Inability to feel pressure and lack of emotional response

Question 11

Hallucinations

Answer 11

Misinterpretations of sensory perceptions that occur while a person is awake and conscious, and in the absence of corresponding stimuli

Question 12

Delusions

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Implausible beliefs that persist despite contradictory evidence

Question 13

Persecutory Delusions

Answer 13

Believe they are being pursued or targeted– most common

Question 14

Referential delusions

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Belief that common, meaningless occurances have significant and personal relevance

Question 15

Somatic delusions

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Related to patient’s body– organs have turned to dust

Question 16

Religious delusions

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Belief that biblical passages offer the way to destroy or save the world

Question 17

Delusions of grandeur

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Belief in divine or special powers that can control the course of history

Question 18

Loose Associations

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Shifts quickly from one topic to another

Question 19

Word salad

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Many different, unrelated topics

Question 20

Neologisms

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Newly created word whose meaning is unknown to others

Question 21

Perseveration

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Repetition of the same verbal or motor response

Question 22

Thought blocking

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Sudden silences in persons speech

Question 23

Abnormal motor behaviour

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Deficits in motor functioning and difficulty with goal directed behaviour

Question 24

Catatonic behaviour

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Reduction n responsiveness to environment

Question 25

Wavy flexibility

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Allowing others to move their body into new positions and maintaining it

Question 26

Affective flattening

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Lack of emotional responsiveness and failing to convey feeling

Question 27

Alogia

Answer 27

Poverty of speech

Question 28

6 DSM criteria

Answer 28

Characteristic symptoms Social or occupational dysfunction Persistence for at least 6 months Exclusion of schizoaffective or mood disorders Exclusion of substance abuse or medical conditions Consideration of autism or communication disorder

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3 phases of schiz

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Prodromal Active Residual

Question 30

Prodromal

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Clear deterioration of functioning

Question 31

Active

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2 or more symptoms, one must be positive, lasts at least 1 month

Question 32

Residual

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Attenuated symptoms following active phase

Question 33

Schizophreniform disorder

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Lats 1-6 months

Question 34

Brief psychotic disorder

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Less than 1 month

Question 35

Endophenotypes

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Hereditary marker that is closely associated but is not a direct symptom of disorder-- vulnerability

Question 36

Cognitive subtypes

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Subgroups on basis of impaired problem solving and memory deficits

Question 37

Kraepelin

Answer 37

Noted it ran in families, frontal and temporal lobes involved

Question 38

Schizophrenogenic

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Cold and rejecting behaviour causes schizophrenia

Question 39

Collective unconcious

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Jung-- Symbols and myths are shared unconsciously in a culture

Question 40

Hypokrisia

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Nerve cells are abnormally reactive to incoming stimulation

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Aversive drift

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Brain amplifies feelings of pain and weakens pleasure-- makes social contact unpleasant

Question 42

Schizotype

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Person experiencing cognitive slippage and aversive drift

Question 43

One episode only, complete recovery

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20%

Question 44

Several episodes, return to normal functioning

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35%

Question 45

Several episodes, never return to normal

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10%

Question 46

Continual deterioration, poor er functioning between episodes

Answer 46

35%

Question 47

Reducton in lifespan

Answer 47

10 years

Question 48

Prevalence

Answer 48

1% men= women

Question 49

Schizoaffective disordr

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Grandiose, jealous, persecutory

Question 50

MZ concordance rate

Answer 50

48%

Question 51

Penetrance

Answer 51

Proportion of peoplewith a genetic change that exhibit signs of a disorder

Question 52

Cumulative liability

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Combined risk for developing an illness that accumulates over multiple factors and over time

Question 53

Left temporal lobe

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Attention, speech, language, visual understanding

Question 54

3 systems in dopamine hypothesis

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Nigrostriatal Mesocortical Mesolimbic

Question 55

D2 receptors

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Postive symptoms, benefit from antipsychotics

Question 56

D1

Answer 56

Negative symptoms

Question 57

Basal ganglia

Answer 57

Abnormal motor behaviour

Question 58

Right temporal lobe

Answer 58

Flat affect, aprosodia