Schizophrenia and the Other Psychotic Disorders
The prevalence of schizophrenia increases by 10% when this group is also diagnosed with schizophrenia.
What is first-degree relatives.
Patients with schizophrenia have difficulty recognizing emotions in faces and speech, a problem related to this type of cognition.
What is social cognition?
The primary neurotransmitter involved in schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
A main difference between schizophrenia and delusional disorder.
What are hallucinations?
True or false: Patients return to how they were before they were ill after receiving treatment.
What is false?
Schizophrenia-like psychosis lasting at least one month but less than 6 months.
What is schizophreniform disorder?
Schizophrenia risk increases when a mother experiences an extremely stressful event during these trimesters.
What are the late first trimester and early second trimester?
The type of brain matter that is important for connectivity in the brain.
What is white matter?
People with a genetic risk for schizophrenia may develop it if they experience these two things.
The percentage of patients that need long-term institutionalization.
What is 12%?
Delusion that involves a great love for a person, usually of higher status.
What is erotomania?
Males with schizophrenia are more likely than females to show enlargement of these fluid filled structures in the brain.
What are ventricles?
The percentage of increased risk for schizophrenia that someone who experienced a head injury from 11-15 has.
What is 85%?
The brain mistakes internal thoughts as external voices due to this.
What is abnormal dopamine activity?
First generation antipsychotics work best for this category of schizophrenia patients.
What is positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Discrete, stable, and measurable traits that are thought to be under genetic control.
What are endophenotypes?
Monozygotic twins do not always have identical prenatal environments because of differences in this.
What are chorionic arrangements?
True or False: Schizophrenia is the result of a major problem in the medial temporal lobe of the brain.
What is false?
People with schizophrenia often have enlarged ventricles and less gray matter, which can lead to these two problems.
What are thinking and emotional problems.
The psychosocial approach designed to help patients adapt on a day-to-day basis.
What is social-skills training?
Genes that are involved in processes that are believed to be abnormal in schizophrenia.
What is candidate genes?
The early signs of schizophrenia, which researchers study before a full diagnosis, are known as this.
What is prodromal phase?
The disconnection between language production and language comprehension areas in the brain.
What is the cause of of auditory hallucinations?
High stress, urban livings, and this can make symptoms worse in people already at risk.
What is discrimination?
The pharmacological approach that has fewer extrapyramidal symptoms.
What is second-generation antipsychotics?