Epidemiology and Risk Factors
Schizophrenia is usually diagnosed in these age groups.
Late adolescence to early adulthood.
Manifestations of things that are not normally present.
Positive Symptoms.
These medications do not cure schizophrenia, but they do help to manage the symptoms of the disease.
Antipsychotic medications.
People with schizophrenia are more at risk for?
People who have schizophrenia are more at risk for Isolating themselves due to the negative symptoms that take away from who they are.
Globally, schizophrenia affects around what percentage of the population?
0.32%.
Absences of things that are normally present.
Negative symptoms.
These antipsychotics diminish positive symptoms and negative signs of lack of motivation, social withdrawal, and anhedonia
Second Generation.
Most common misconception of schizophrenia.
People with schizophrenia are dangerous.
One environmental risk factor for schizophrenia.
Prenatal or early-life stress, poor nutrition, low birth weight, and exposure to toxins or viruses.
One positive symptom of schizophrenia.
Hallucinations, delusions, alteration in speech, and bizarre behavior such as walking backwards constantly.
The primary medical treatment for schizophrenia.
Psychopharmacology.
Due to the age of diagnosis, schizophrenia is thought to be caused by what?
Childhood abuse or neglect.
One psychosocial risk factor for schizophrenia.
Life experiences like poverty, chronic stress, and the use of mind-altering drugs during adolescence.
One negative symptom of schizophrenia.
Affect that is usually blunted or flat, alogia or poverty of thought or speech, anergia or lack of energy, anhedonia or lack of pleasure or joy, and avolition or lack of motivation in activities and hygiene.
This supportive therapy provides social contact and meaningful relationships with other individuals.
Group therapy.
Recent studies indicate that the genetic risk of schizophrenia is _____, meaning several genes contribute to the development.
Polygenic.
One cognitive symptom of schizophrenia.
Disordered thinking, inability to make decisions, difficulty concentrating to perform tasks, impaired abstract thinking.
One serious side effect from antipsychotic medications.
Serious side effects of these medications may include extrapyramidal side effects (EPS), tardive dyskinesia, seizures, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome.