Symptoms
Characteristics added to one's behavior
What are positive symptoms?
One side effect from medication is the awkward involuntary movements of tongue and mouth
What is tardive dyskinesia?
The belief that someone is unable to perform a job due to schizophrenia
What is discrimination?
Drug that can increase your risk of developing schizophrenia
What is cannabis (THC)?
Symptoms that can be a risk factor for a poorer prognosis.
What are negative symptoms?
Not believing one has an illness, that is their reality
What is anosognosia?
The side effect when one loses white blood cells
What is agran?
A person suffering from psychotic symptoms at different degrees.
What is schizophrenia spectrum disorder?
When schizophrenia typically emerges
What is young adulthood?
People with schizophrenia can develop serious health conditions after the use of antipsychotics that changes their life expectancy
What is metabolic syndrome?
Loss of speech
What is alogia?
The first antipsychotic medication in 1954
What is thorazine?
The idea that a mother's personality is the cause of schizophrenia in her children and that she is overprotective but also subtly rejecting
What is the Schizophernogenic Mother stereotype?
Strongest risk factor for development of schizophrenia
What is family history?
13.5% of patients with schizophrenia have been estimated to have this prognosis
What is the percentage for full recovery in schizophrenia?
Fixed beliefs that cannot be swayed
What is sialorrehia?
People with schizophrenia are mistaken for being a higher risk for violent behavior but, they are actually more at risk for being the victims of violence.
What is a misconception for people with schizophrenia and violence?
Gene associated with schizophrenia risk
What is the VAL Allele?
An early onset of schizophrenia can be a predictor for this prognosis
What is a risk factor associated with a negative prognosis?
Sensory experiences without any external stimuli
What are hallucinations?
Therapy that is known to help many mental illnesses
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
Disorder commonly stereotyped as/mistaken for schizophrenia
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This part of the brain is typically smaller in those with schizophrenia
People who have schizophrenia can complete treatment and be able to experience symptoms again
What is Decompensation?