Symptoms
False beliefs that persist despite evidence proving otherwise
What are delusions?
Common environmental factors that can trigger psychotic symptoms
What is stress, trauma, or drug use?
The primary type of medication used to treat pyschtoics disorders
What are antipsychotics?
Most well-known psychotic disorder
What is schizophrenia?
Postive symptoms
What is hallucinations, delusions, catatonia, thought disorder, disorganized behavior
Hearing, seeing or feelings things they are not there
What are hallucinations?
A neurotransmitter that is often linked to schizophrenia due to high activity levels
What is dopamine?
A type of therapy that helps people with psychotic disorders manage thoughts and behaviors
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Involves mood disturbances along with psychotoic symptoms
What is schizoaffective?
Negative symptoms
What is affective flattening, alogia, avolition, anhedonia,
Showing restricted or absent expression of emotion
What is flat affect?
Family history of having psychosis that increases likelyhood of the develop of the conditon
What is genetic predisposition?
Side effects of the medications of psychotic disorders
What is dizziness, nausea, sedation, seizures, hyper-salivation, weight gain, tachycardia?
A set of lifelong patterns of significant oddites with respect to self concept, ways of relating to other people, thinking, and behavior
What is schizotypal?
Phases of schizophrenia
What is prodromal, active, and residual?
When a person has difficulty organizing thoughts or speech
What is disorganized thinking/speech?
A structural brain abnormality found in a significant proportion of individuals with schizophrenia
What are enlarged ventricles?
Medications classified in two groups, first generation and second generation, based off of mechanism of action, side effects, and historical developmen
What are typical and atypical antipsychotics?
Mimics schizophrenia but lasts less than six months and may be triggered by enviormental factors, genetics, or brain structure
What is schizophreniform?
Case of two or more people who share the same delusion and happens more to close family members or partners
What is shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux)?
A severe form of motor dysfunction in psychosis where a person may remain motionless, have bizzare movements, or rigidity
What is catatonia?
Studies suggesting that this part of the brain, which is involed in reasoning & decision-making, is often smaller with those who has schizophrenia
What is the prefrontal cortex?
A social and career intervention helping indivduals with psychotic disorders reintegrate into daily life
What is psychosocial rehabilitation?
Delusional disorder that makes one have a false belief that one's appearence or part of one's body is diseased or altered
What is somatic delusion?
Neruological disorder involving involuntary movements of face, mouth, jaw, or tounge
What is tardive dyskinesia?