Basics
What type of disorder is schizo?
Chronic neurobiological disorder
Hearing voices is called?
Auditory hallucinations
Lack of emotional expression is called?
Flat or blunted affect
Which key neurotransmitter is involved?
Dopamine
First line meds
Antipsychotics
What percentage of US pop is affected?
1%
False fixed beliefs are called?
Delusions
Decreased speech is called?
Alogia
What brain change involves loss of brain tissue?
Decreased gray matter
What is the side effects of first-gen antipsychotics?
EPS
What is the typical age of onset?
Early adulthood
Thinking pattern with disconnected ideas is called?
Loose associations
Lack of motivation is called?
Avolition
What structural brain change involves fluid space?
Enlarged ventricles
Long term movement disorder that can be permanent is?
Tardive dyskinesia
What major risk is associated with schizo?
High suicide risk
Repeating another persons words is called?
Echolalia (also seen in ASD)
Inability to feel pleasure is called?
Anhedonia
What is the strongest risk factor?
Family hx - specifically 1st generation relative
Bro what's like the #1 nursing priority for everything?
Safety
What is the life expectancy change in scchizo?
decreased by 10-25 years
Motor symptom where limbs stay in placed positions is called?
Waxy flexibility
Withdrawal from social interaction is called?
Social withdrawal
What inflammatory markers are increased during psychosis?
Cytokines
What is a key communication rule with delusions?
Don't argue with/lecture the patient