SCHIZOPHRENIA

Question 1

PRESENCE of inappropriate symptoms

Answer 1

Positive Symptoms - Increased Limbic Dopamine Activity

Question 2

ABSENCE of appropriate symptoms

Answer 2

Negative Symptoms - Decreased Frontal Dopamine Activity

Question 3

Beliefs contrary to reality and firmly held in spite of disconforming evidence

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Delusions - Positive

Question 4

A person may believe that thoughts that are not his or her own might have been PLACED in his or her mind by an EXTERNAL source

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Thought INSERTION

Question 5

A person may believe that his or her thoughts are BROADCASTED or TRANSMITTED, so that other know what he or she is thinking

Answer 5

Thought BROADCASTING

Question 6

An exaggerated sense of his or her own importance, power, knowledge, or identity

Answer 6

Grandiose Delusions

Question 7

Incorporating unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others

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Ideas of Reference

Question 8

Attempts to deal with and relieve anxiety and stress

Answer 8

Motivational View

Question 9

Sees these beliefs as resulting from a BRAIN DYSFUNCTION that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions

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Deficit View

Question 10

The experience of SENSORY events without any input from the surrounding environment ; often AUDITORY than VISUAL

Answer 10

Hallucinations - Positive

Question 11

Refers to a lack of MOTIVATION and a seeming absence of interest in an or inability to persist in what are usually routine activities

Answer 11

Avolition - Negative

Question 12

Severe impairments in social relationships

Answer 12

Asociality - Negative

Question 13

A loss of INTEREST in or a reported lessening of the experience of PLEASURE

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Anhedonia - Negative

Question 14

Refers to a lack of outward expression of emotion

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Affective Flattening - Negative

Question 15

Refers to a significant reduction in the amount of SPEECH

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Alogia - Negative

Question 16

Refers to the problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that the listener can understand

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Disorganized Speech - Disorganized Symp.

Question 17

The person may be more successful in communicating with a listener but has difficulty sticking to one topic

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Loose Associations or Derailment - Disorganized Symp.

Question 18

Going off on a TANGENT instead of answering a specific question

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Tangetiality - Disorganized Symp.

Question 19

People may go into INEXPLICABLE bouts of agitation, dress in unusual clothes, act in a childlike manner, hoard food, or collect garbage

Answer 19

Disorganized Behavior - Disorganized Symp.

Question 20

Abnormal Psychomotor behavior refers to disturbances in movement behavior

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Movement Symptoms - Disorganized Symp.

Question 21

Comprises a mixture of symptoms of Schizophrenia and MOOD Disorders

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Schizoaffective Disorder - 1 to 6 months

Question 22

Troubled by persistent delusions of PERSECUTION or by delusional JEALOUSY

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Delusional Disorder

Question 23

Brought by extreme stress, such a bereavement and only lasts from 1 day to 1 month

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

Question 24

Less severe presentation of delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech in past month occurring at least ONCE a week

Answer 24

Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

Question 25

Also known as Antipsychotic Drugs

Answer 25

Neuroleptics