People affected
This percentage of people suffer from schizophrenia
1%
Schizophrenia's etymology breaks down to mean this two word phrase. This phrase is often misinterpreted to mean "split personality", which is not the case.
"split mind"
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are characterized by these symptoms (8)
100 points each
1) loss of contact with reality
2) psychotic symptoms
3) disorganized thinking and speech
4) breakdown in selective attention
5) delusions or false beliefs no based in reality
6) narratives of persecution and paranoia
7) perceptual disturbances and hallucinations
8) disorganized, abnormal, incongruent behavior and emotions
Post-mortem analysis indicates that those with schizophrenia tend to have more receptors for this neurotransmitter (influences movement, learning, attention, and emotion)
Dopamine
This is a rough definition of dissociative disorders
disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition that usually surfaces for men in this age range and for women in this age range
men - early to to 20s
women - late 20s
Scizophrenia corresponds in meaning to this three word phrase
"split from reality"
This is the most common type of hallucination
Audio
These two brain areas are thought to be associated with schizophrenia
(100 points each)
1) thalamus
2) amygdala
Dissociative identity disorder is defines like this
when a person exhibits more than one distinct and alternating personality
This person (who was affected by schizophrenia) was the subject of the movie "A Beautiful Mind"
John Forbes Nash Jr
These three categories are used by psychologists to characterize the symptoms displayed
(100 each)
1) Positive
2) Negative
3) Disorganized
diathesis
The story of Shirley Mason caused reported cases of multiple personality disorders to increase from 100 to nearly this number
40,000
1/100 odds (1%) jump to nearly this percentage if you have a parent or sibling with schizophrenia.
10%
A landmark 7 year study spanning 35 countries and including 35,000 people with schizophrenia and over 100,000 people without the disorder identifies more than this many genes that may increase the risk of schizophrenia
100
In rare cases, people with dissociative personality disorders have personalities with different brain/physiological expressions such as these
- right/left hand dominance
- variations in eyesight
The odds of getting scizophrenia are about this percentage in the case of a sibling with an identical twin with the disorder, even if those twins were raised apart.
50%