The Basics
This chronic and severe mental disorder is characterized by disturbances in thought, perception, emotions, and behavior.
What is schizophrenia?
This percentage of the global population is affected by schizophrenia, a chronic and severe mental disorder.
What is approximately 0.3% to 0.7%?
This term refers to the reduced display of emotional expression often observed in individuals with schizophrenia.
What is blunted affect?
These are the two main classes of antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia.
What are first-generation (typical) and second-generation (atypical) antipsychotics?
This term refers to the withdrawal from social interactions, limited social support networks, and feelings of loneliness and alienation experienced by individuals with schizophrenia.
What is social isolation?
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations and this, which are false beliefs held despite evidence to the contrary.
What are delusions?
Schizophrenia typically emerges during this stage of life, with males often showing symptoms around ages 18 to 25.
What is late adolescence or early adulthood?
These interventions involve providing information about schizophrenia, treatment options, and coping strategies to patients and their families.
What is psychoeducation?
This neurotransmitter system is targeted by antipsychotic medications to alleviate positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is the dopamine system?
Families caring for individuals with schizophrenia often experience this emotional state due to uncertainty about the future and balancing caregiving responsibilities with other obligations.
What is emotional distress?
This type of hallucination involves sensory experiences that occur in the absence of any external stimuli, such as hearing voices or sounds.
This type of hallucination involves sensory experiences that occur in the absence of any external stimuli, such as hearing voices or sounds.
This factor, characterized by disruptions in early brain development, may contribute to the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.
What are neurodevelopmental abnormalities?
These support networks, facilitated by mental health professionals, allow individuals with schizophrenia and their families to share experiences and resources.
What are support groups?
This atypical antipsychotic medication, often used for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, carries a risk of agranulocytosis and requires regular blood monitoring.
What is clozapine?
Individuals with schizophrenia are overrepresented in this system due to untreated symptoms, substance abuse, and lack of access to mental health services.
What is the criminal justice system?
These cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia include deficits in attention, working memory, and executive function.
What are cognitive deficits?
: Dysfunction in this neurotransmitter system, particularly involving the NMDA receptor, is implicated in cognitive deficits and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is the glutamatergic system?
This type of therapy involves helping individuals with schizophrenia develop skills for managing symptoms, improving social functioning, and enhancing quality of life.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
These medications, often used as adjuncts in the treatment of schizophrenia with comorbid mood symptoms, include lithium and anticonvulsants.
What are mood stabilizers?
This type of intervention involves providing immediate support during crisis situations, including suicide prevention and management of acute symptoms.
What is crisis intervention?
Negative symptoms of schizophrenia involve the absence or reduction of normal behaviors, such as blunted affect and this, which refers to a lack of motivation or inability to initiate and sustain goal-directed activities.
What is avolition?
MRI studies have consistently shown structural abnormalities in the brains of individuals with schizophrenia, including reduced gray matter volume, especially in these two brain regions.
What are the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus?
These nursing interventions involve assisting patients with schizophrenia in meeting basic needs, such as eating, bathing, and medication management.
What are activities of daily living (ADL) assistance?
These side effects, characterized by involuntary muscle movements, are associated with the use of typical antipsychotic medications.
What are extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS)?
This approach to care involves tailoring treatment plans to meet the unique needs, preferences, and goals of each individual with schizophrenia.
What is individualized treatment?