Symptoms & Diagnosis
Length of time of symptoms to diagnose schizophrenia.
What is 6 months (1 month active)?
There are several types of delusions. ___________ delusions involve the belief that someone else is in love with the person with the delusion.
What is an "Erotomanic" delusion?
________ play an important role in the etiology of schizophrenia, but the biopsychosocial model and research data show multiple influences are involved.
What are genetics?
______ ______ ______ for psychotic disorders is focused on enhancing cognitive skills, preventing loss of grey matter in the brain, and fostering social cognition.
What is Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET)?
An unusual belief that is contradictory to social and cultural expectations.
What is a delusion?
A mood disorder is the prominent feature of the patient's condition; they do experience psychosis, but only during mood disruptions.
What is Major Depression with Psychotic Symptoms?
The _________ perspective seeks to understand the impact of social and cultural forces on symptoms and treatments.
What is the "sociocultural" perspective?
When patients are displaying the ______ symptoms of delusions and audible hallucinations, and the ______ symptom of catatonia, it make it difficult for them to function, consistent with schizophrenia.
What are "positive" and "negative"?
Symptoms are "Positive" or "Negative". ___________ symptoms are subtractive, reflecting a decrease or absence of common reactions and behaviors such as flat affect (emotion).
What is "Negative"?
Studies of persons who transition from drug-induced psychosis to schizophrenia are highest for _________ users.
What is cannabis?
As medications were developed, the _________ Hypothesis of Schizophrenia was thought that it resulted from excessive _________ in the brain.
What is Dopamine; dopamine?
A patient used marijuana over the weekend, and on Monday, was still experiencing hallucinations. He/she was panicked about going to school and acted paranoid and mistrustful of everyone. Diagnosis:
What is Stimulant-Induced Psychosis?
A negative symptom which contains a persistent lack of motivation or inability to initiate and/or persist in goal-directed activities.
What is avolition?
Individuals with a likely genetic __________ for psychosis are more likely to have a psychotic reaction to some drugs.
What is diathesis?
The use of anti-psychotic medications, particularly ____ generation or _______ medications, has caused "Extra Pyramidal Symptoms (EPS)", related to akathisia and dystonia.
What are 1st generation or "Typical"?
A patient presents both mood symptoms and those of psychosis. More specifically, this individual would be noted for having _______ disorder with depression and catatonia.
What is "Schizoaffective" Disorder?
Minor symptoms that may indicate a worsening in the condition to follow, denoted by the prefix pro-, meaning they come before other, more severe symptoms.
What is "prodromal"?
A patient has Alcohol-Induced Psychosis. ____ _____ _____ will likely be prescribed. After this and assessment for suicide potential, _____ will help them get ready for treatment.
What are "2nd generation antipsychotic drugs" and "detox"?
________ and thought disorders frequently disrupt a person’s normal process of development and interfere with important life skills the person was developing.
What is psychosis?
_________ symptoms of schizophrenia are additional behaviors that are unusual or atypical.
What are "Positive" symptoms?