Positive Symptoms
Highly exaggerated ideas, perceptions, or actions that show the person can’t tell what’s real from what isn’t
What are positive symptoms?
An absence or lack of normal mental health function involving thinking, behavior, and perception
An excess in behavioral activity, mood states, and self-esteem and confidence
What is mania?
Major features are low mood and behavioral activity
What are depressive symptoms?
A biological disorder which likely results from an imbalance in brain chemicals
What is schizoaffective disorder?
False perceptions (hearing, seeing, feeling, or smelling things that are not actually there)
What are hallucinations?
Expressiveness of an individual's face, voice tone, and gestures is less
What is blunted affect?
An individual's mood is abnormally elevated, such as extremely happy or excited
What is euphoria?
Mood is low most of the time
What is depressed mood?
Can reduce symptoms of schizoaffective disorder
What are medications?
False beliefs (a belief which a person holds, but which others do not share)
What are delusions?
Not feeling motivated to pursue goals and activities
The individual is easily angered or persistently irritable, especially when others seem to interfere with his or her plans or goals
What is irritability?
Loss of appetite (and weight) when not dieting, or increased appetite (and weight gain) are evident
What are change in appetite and/or weight?
Tends to improve through an individual's lifetime
What are symptoms?
Talking in a manner that is difficult to follow
What is a thinking disturbance?
Experiencing little or no pleasure from activities that were once enjoyed
What is anhedonia?
The individual is extremely self-confident and may be unrealistic about his or her abilities
What is inflated self-esteem?
What are feelings or worthlessness, hopelessness, or helplessness?
Schizoaffective disorder develops in about 1 in ____ people
What is 200?
A condition in which the person is unable to execute and control certain movements, or it is very difficult for them to do so
What is a movement disorder?
The individual has difficulty paying attention and is easily distracted
What is inattention?
Only a few hours of sleep are needed a night
What is decreased need for sleep?
Feelings of guilt may be present about events that the individual did not even do, such as a catastrophe, a crime, or an illness
What is inappropriate guilt?
Vulnerability to developing schizoaffective disorder is partially determined by _____ and ______
What are genetic factors and environmental factors?