Scizophrenia Flashcards
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What are the Psychotic Symptoms
Delusions
Prominent Hallucinations
Disorgaized speech
Disorganized or catatonic behavior
This disorder is characterised by hallucations, delusions, behavioharl disturbancesm disrupted social functioning, and associated symptoms
Schizophrenia
Prevalence of schizophrenia in the US
1%
Schizophrenia needs to be this ling with continous signs of illness
6 months
Active symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusions
Hallucinations (MC)
Negative Symptoms for schizophrenia
Severe defecits flat affect decreased emotion reacvitibty alogia avolition
Alogia is
poverty of speech
Avoliltion is
lack of purposeful action
Is Life expectancty shorter for a person with
yes
40% sucide
10-20 succeed
What causes can be linked to schizophrenia
Genetic factors Endocrine factors Nuerochemical changes Neurophysiological changes brain structual changes Viral and immune factors
Percent of schizophrenia with a full sibiling with it
10%
Percent chanve of schizo with a parent with it
13%
Percent chance of schizo with MZ cotwin with schizo
42%
Percent chance of schizo with both parents with it
46%
Males usually develop schizo during
puberty
These endocrine changes have been found in ppl with schizo
Prolactin
melatonin
thyroid functions
An excess of this can lead to development of schizo symptoms
Dopamine activity in the CNS
Areas of the brain that can be altered in Schizo ppl
Frontal
temporal
limbic
basal ganglia
Can brain symmetery be altered in ppl with schizo
yes
These immunglobulins have been altered in schizo ppl
IgG
IgA
IgM
Is psychosocial factors a cause of schizo
no
but do play apart in the course of the illness
This disorders is characteriezed by at least 1 month of non bizarre delusions without other active-phase symptoms of schizo
Delusional Disoreders
This is a psychotic disorder that last more than 1 day and remits by 1 month
Breif Psychotic Disorder
This disorder is like criteraischizo but can be characterized by 2
Schizophreniform disorder