Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia – Perceptual Disturbances
This type of hallucination is often characterized by visual distractibility.
What are visual hallucinations?
This speech pattern is often characterized by speech that repeats or echoes what was said or heard.
What is echolalia?
This affect is characterized by a lack of expression of emotion being exhibited.
What is a flat affect?
This negative symptom is characterized by inability to find pleasure where they once may have had.
What is the residual phase?
This is a drug-induced condition that results from long-term use of certain medications, most commonly antipsychotics, that is characterized by chronic, involuntary movements in the face, body, or both.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia (TD)?
This type of hallucination is the most common, and it is often audibly distracting.
What are auditory hallucinations?
This speech pattern is often characterized by increased rate and amount of speech like a train getting faster with more power.
What is pressured speech?
This behavior is noted to be characterized by slowed movements and moments of being motionless.
What is psychomotor retardation?
The onset of this initial phase occurs before many of the more observable or severe symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is the prodromal phase?
When giving an antipsychotic, we monitor for muscle rigidity, hypertension, tachycardia, and psychomotor agitation related to this set of adverse effects.
What are extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)?
This type of delusion is often characterized by being overly scared or fearful.
What are paranoid delusions?
This speech pattern is often characterized by extensive wandering speech that eventually gets back to the topic.
What is circumstantiality?
This negative symptom is characterized by lack of language skills, often called “poverty of speech”.
This phenomenon noted in psychosis is defined as thoughts and beliefs that they are separated from self, seems to see self from the distance.
What is depersonalization?
When giving an antipsychotic, we monitor for muscle rigidity, hypertension, tachycardia, and psychomotor agitation related to this set of adverse effects.
What is metabolic syndrome?
This type of delusion is often characterized by believing self has a high societal stature or lots of money.
What are grandiose delusions?
This speech pattern is often characterized by speech that lacks connection at the basic level and is “jumbled” together.
What is word salad?
This negative symptom is characterized by lack or decreased interest or attention to activities once thought important.
What is apathy?
This behavior is defined as notable and severe decrease in reaction to environmental stimuli, ranging from ignoring commands to a complete lack of response and holding of a rigid position
What is catatonia?
If a patient has acute EPS symptoms, they will be emergently administered this medication IM.
What is benztropine (Cogentin)?
This type of delusion is often characterized by a patient feeling their thoughts are not their own, but the thoughts have instead been planted in their mind.
What is thought insertion?
This speech pattern is often characterized by speech with sounds or words that rhyme rather than meaning.
What is clanging/clang associations?
This negative symptom is characterized by inability to find pleasure where they once may have had.
What is anhedonia?
This cognitive deficit related to schizophrenia is defined as a lack of insight when someone is either unaware or cannot perceive accurately their own mental health.
What is anosognosia?
In order to prevent EPS symptoms, this medication with secondary anticholinergic effects may be administered with a first generation antipsychotic when a patient is violent.
What is diphenhydramine (Benadryl)?