Symptoms & Diagnosis
Impaired ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
What is impaired reality testing?
The most common type of schizophrenia, characterized by prominent positive symptoms.
What is paranoid schizophrenia?
This class of medications is often used to reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotic medications?
This American mathematician and Nobel laureate was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Who is John Nash?
Who is John Nash?
These neurotransmitters are believed to play a role in the development of schizophrenia.
What are serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine?
Affective flattening, alogia, and avolition are known as the "3 A's" of which symptom category?
What are negative symptoms?
This subtype of schizophrenia involves extreme psychomotor disturbance, often catatonia.
What is catatonic schizophrenia?
A type of psychosocial therapy that helps individuals manage their symptoms and improve functioning.
What is cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
The author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" wrote extensively about his experiences with schizophrenia.
Who is Ken Kesey?
In the mid-20th century, this class of drugs revolutionized the treatment of schizophrenia.
What are antipsychotic medications?
: A lack of emotional expression, including facial expressions, voice tone, and gestures.
What is blunted affect?
Schizophrenia subtype marked by a predominance of negative symptoms and disorganized speech.
What is disorganized schizophrenia?
This approach emphasizes providing supportive environments for patients and their families how to bond, problem-solve, collaborate, and learn from each other.
What is family psychoeducation ?
This famous painter, known for "Starry Night," experienced episodes of psychosis.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
The first-generation antipsychotic drug, chlorpromazine, belongs to this class of medications.
What are typical antipsychotics (or neuroleptics)?
This term refers to false sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that are not there.
What are hallucinations?
A rare subtype characterized by delusions of grandeur or persecution, a mood disorder (depression or mania) as well as schizophrenia.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
Akathisia, akinesia, dyskinesia, dystonia, and drug-induced parkinsonism.
What are extrapyramidal side effects ?
John Nash, the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," was awarded a Nobel Prize in this field.
What is Economics?
This early 20th-century term referred to the belief that schizophrenia was caused by a cold and unemotional mother.
What is the "schizophrenogenic mother" concept?
To be diagnosed with schizophrenia, symptoms must persist for at least this duration.
What is 12 months?
Schizophrenia subtype with at least one acute episode of schizophrenia, is free of acute psychosis; prognosis is poor.
What is residual schizophrenia?
The condition is poorly understood and frequently goes undiagnosed. Death can occur from respiratory failure, kidney failure, aspiration pneumonia, or pulmonary emboli.
What is Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)?
: Elyn Saks, a legal scholar, and mental health advocate, wrote a memoir about her experience with schizophrenia titled this.
What is "The Center Cannot Hold"?
This research finding suggests that people born in urban areas are at a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.
What is the urban birth effect?