Schizophrenia 5.4c

Question 1

Schizophrenia

Answer 1

The ability to function is impaired by severely disordered beliefs, perceptions, inappropriate emotions, and behaviors

Question 2

Positive symptoms

Answer 2

Presence of problematic behaviors (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought and speech, bizarre behaviors)

Question 3

Negative symptoms

Answer 3

Absence of healthy behaviors (Reduced social interaction, flat affect, lack of motivation, absence of speech). Severe cases: catatonia

Question 4

Types of hallucinations

Answer 4

Auditory: Hearing voices
Visual: Seeing things not actually there
Tactile: Feeling skin sensations

Question 5

Delusions

Answer 5

Grandeur: More important
Persecution: People are out to get you
Sin or Guilt: Responsible for an accident because you forgot to brush your teeth
Influence: False beliefs of being controlled by outside forces
Reference: Stories or events are created especially for you

Question 6

Disorganized speech

Answer 6

Word Salad: A string of words that vaguely resembles language
Neologisms: Making up words
Clang Speech: Rhyming all the words
Echolalia: Repeating exactly what someone else has said
Echopraxia: Repeating exactly what someone else has done

Question 7

Disorganized behavior

Answer 7

Perserveration: Repeating the same activity over and over again
Dressing oddly
Doing things in public that are usually done only in private

Question 8

Disorganized thought

Answer 8

Over-inclusion - jumping from idea to idea
Paralogic - on the surface, seems logical, but is seriously flawed

Question 9

Disorganized emotions

Answer 9

Flat affect: Lack of any emotion
Inappropriate affect: Laughing then going into crying
Catatonic
Stupor: Unresponsiveness to the environment
Excitement: Restless, agitated, compulsive movements

Question 10

Acute/Reactive

Answer 10

Develops rapidly, usually after a stressful event. High rate of recovery.

Question 11

Chronic/Process

Answer 11

Develops slowly, often with negative symptoms, low recovery rate

Question 12

Causes of schizophrenia

Answer 12

Dopamine hypothesis
Brain abnormalities
Tissue loss
Viral infection theory

Question 13

Dopamine Hypothesis

Answer 13

Excess receptors for dopamine; hyper respond to dopamine, a potential cause for positive symptoms

Question 14

Brain abnormalities

Answer 14

Enlarged cerebral ventricles and reduced neural tissue around the ventricles; decreased frontal lobe, increased thalamus, and amygdala

Question 15

Tissue loss

Answer 15

Once the brain starts pruning, people who have early-onset schizophrenia the brain overdone the pruning

Question 16

Viral infection theory

Answer 16

Mothers with the flu in the second trimester have very high rates