schizophrenia

Question 1

what are features

Answer 1

involve stats about the disorder, or aspect of it such as how the illness develops or how other factors such as age and gender link

Question 2

what are symptoms

Answer 2

what categorise the disorder with regard to how the person thinks, feels or behaves

Question 3

what are the features of s1

Answer 3

• 1% of population have it
• a 1/4 of those who have an s1 episode never have one again
• another 1/4 have it without a break
• 1/2 have periods of recovery and periods of symptoms

Question 4

what are the symptoms of s1

Answer 4

• hearing voices
• being guided by others
• flattened emotions
• not speaking
• thought disordered
• hallucinations
• scared of people
• disorganised
• paranoia
• voices can tell him to ‘do things’
• catatonic behaviour

Question 5

what are positive rankings

Answer 5

• hallucinations = hearing or seeing things
• delusions = false beliefs, thinking their movements are controlled by someone else
• thought disordered = makes someone’s speech hard to follow. lose concentration or muddled thinking

Question 6

what are negative rankings

Answer 6

• alogia = poverty of speech
• abolition = lack of motivation
• lack of energy
• social withdrawal
• flatness of emotions
• mot looking after appearance and self

Question 7

what is catatonic behaviour

Answer 7

physical ticks ‘sped up’. movement/gesture or statue like

Question 8

evaluation of positive symptoms

Answer 8

tend to have a greater weight when diagnosing s1 but they can be affected by cultural differences so perhaps should not be weighted as strongly as negative symptoms which might be more objectively measured

Question 9

evaluation of negative symptoms

Answer 9

seems less effected by cultural factors so they can be more objectively measured
lack of energy can be easy measured but hearing voices or not is impossible
prodromal features have been found to be present in may adolescents and cannot be taken to indicate the onset of s1 on their own