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Schizophrenia |
is characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions that include delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech, and behaviour, and inappropriate emotions. |
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Symptoms of schizophrenia are divided into... |
Positive, negative and disorganised |
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Positive symptoms |
Active manifestations of abnormal behaviour, or an excess or distortion of normal behavior, includes dellusions and hallucinations. Are there but should not be) |
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Negative symptoms |
Involve deficits in normal behavior on such dimensions as affect, speech, and motivation. (Aren't there but should be) |
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Disorganized symptoms |
Includes a variety of erratic behaviors that includes rambling speech, erratic behavior, and inappropriate affect. |
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Psychotic behaviors, such as hallucinations and delusions characterise these disorders |
Schizophreniform disorder Schizoaffective disorder Delusional disorder Brief psycotic disorder |
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Schizophreniform Disorder |
Psycotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia, but lasting less than 6 months. |
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Schizoaffective Disorder |
A psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and a major mood disorder. |
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Delusional Disorder |
A psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia. |
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Brief Psycotic Disorder |
Psychotic disturbance involving dellusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior, but lasting less than one month; often occurs in reaction to a stressor. |
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Attenuated Pyschosis Syndrome |
Disorder involving the onset of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, which put a person at risk for schizophrenia; designated for further study by the DSM-5. |
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Alogia |
Deficiency in the amount or content of speech; a disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia. |
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Anhedonia |
Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some schizophrenic and mood disorders. |
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Assocoative Splitting |
Separation amoung basic functions of human personality (eg. cognition, emotion, perception) that is seen by some as the defining characteristics of schizophrenia. |
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Avolition |
Apathy or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities. |
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Catatonia |
Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation. |
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Catatonic Immobility |
Disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture, for extended periods of time. |
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Dementia Praecox |
Latin term meaning "premature loss of mind", an early label for what is now called Schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorders frequent appearance during adolescence. |
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Delusion |
Psycotic symptom involving didorder of thought content and presence of strong beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality. |
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Disorganized Speech |
Style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia that involves incoherence and lack of typical logical patterns. |
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Double Blind |
According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages that was thought to cause schizophrenia. |
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Expressed Emotions |
The hostility, criticism and overinvolvement demonstrated by some families towards family members with a psychological disorder; this can often contribute to the person's relapse. |
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Flat Affect |
Apparently emotionless demeanour ( including toneless speech, and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected. |
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Folie à deux or Shared Psycotic Disorder |
Psychotic disturbance in which an individual develops a delusion similar to that of a person with whom he or she shares a close relationship. |
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Hallucination |
Psychotic symptom of a perceptual disturbance in which things are seen or heard or otherwise sensed although they are not real or actually present. |
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Hebephernia |
Silly or immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia. |
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Inappropriate Affect |
Emotional displays that are improper for the situation. |
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Paranoia |
Person's irrational beliefs that he or she is especially important (delusions of granduer) or that other people are seeking to do him or her harm. |
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Psychotic |
Term used to characterize many unusual behaviors, although in the strictest sense it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events). |
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Psychotic disorder (most times associated with another medical condition or incidents) |
Condition that is characterized by hallucinations or delusions and that are a direct result of another psychological disorder, such as a stroke or a brain tumour. |
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Schizoprenogenic |
According to an obsolete unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in his or her offspring. |
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder |
Cluster A ( odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior. |
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Substance- induced Psycotic Disorder |
Psychosis caused by ingestion of medications, psycoactive drugs, or toxins. |
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Token Economy |
Social learning behavior modification system in which individuals earn items they can exchange for desired rewards by displaying appropriate behaviors. |
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Extrapyamidal Side Effects (EPS/ EPSE's) |
Abnormal movements caused by imbalance in dopamine and acetylcholine |
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How widespread is the affect of Schizophrenia? |
1 out of every 100 people |
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Schizophrenia comes from what combo of greek words |
Skhizen= split Phren=mind |
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Between ___ & __ % of people with schizophrenia experience hallucinations, dellusions, or both. |
50 & 70% |
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Negative Symptoms include |
Avolition Alogia Anhedonia Affective Flattening Asociality |
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Asociality |
The severe deficits in social relationships, such as having few friendships, little interest in socializing, and poor social skills shown by some people with schizophrenia. |
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Disorganized Symptoms include: |
Disorganized speech Inappropriate affect Disorganized behaviour |
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To recieve a diagnosis of schizophrenia |
A person must display 2 or more of the major symptoms (ie. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly abnormal psychomotor behavior- including catatonia-or negative symptoms such as diminished emotional expression or avolition) for a significant portion of time for one month. Must include one of these- dellusions, hallucinations or disorganized speech. |