Towards the end of the 19th Century, this German Psychiatrist gave us what stands today as the most enduring description and categorization of schizophrenia.
Who is Emil Kraepelin
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Schizophrenia is more likely strike individuals in these age categories.
What is teens or early 20's?
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A person with this symptom, may show extreme activity levels, peculiar body movements, or postures, strange gestures, and grimaces, or a combination of those.
What is a Disorganized Motoric Disturbances?
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This schizophrenic disorder is characterized by one or more systematized delusions or autitory hallucinations and the absence of such symptoms a disorganized speech and behavior or flat affect.
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia?
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This is a specific type of drug used to treat schizophrenia.
What is an antipsychotic medication?
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Kraepelin recgnized that these symtoms were characteristic of a disorder he called Dementia Praecox
What are hallucinations, delusions, and intellectual deterioration
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This is the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia.
What is approximately 1% of the US population?
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Continual shifting from topic to topic without any apparent logical or meaningful connection between thoughts.
What are Loosing of Associations?
200
This schizophrenic disorder is characterized by grossly disorganized behaviors manifested by disorganized speech and behavior and flat or grossly inappropriate affect.
What is Disorganized Schizophrenia?
200
These antipsychotic drugs that can help treat symptoms of schizophrenia but can produce undesirable side effects, such as symptoms that mimic neurological disorders
What is neuroleptics?
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The Swiss psychiatrist, Eugen Bleuler was the first to use this term.
What is Schizophrenia?
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The typical course of schizophrenia consist of three phases.
What is the Prodromal Phase, the Active Phase, and the Residual Phase?
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Little or no emotion in situations in which strong reactions are expected.
What is Flat Affect
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This rare schizophrenic disorder is characterized by marked disturbance in motor activity.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia
300
Nearly three-forths of patients with schizophrenia benefit from this two pronged approach to treatment.
What is medication and psychotherapy?
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The word schizophrenia is derived from two Greek words that mean what in English?
What is split (skhizein) and mind (phren)?
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This type of twin is more likley to develop schizophrenia.
What are Monozygotic or Identical Twins?
400
A false belief that is firmly and consistently held despite disconfirming evidence or logic.
What is a Delusion?
400
A schizophrenic disorder in which the person's behavior shows prominent psychotic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for paranoid, disorganized, or catatonic schizophrenia.
What is Undifferentiated Schizophrenia?
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This is required to prevent dosage level for becoming too high and incleased side-effects.
What is close regulation and monitoring.
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Unfortunately, the concept of split mind inspired the common but incorrect use of the term schizophrenia to mean what?
What is split or multiple personality?
500
A type of negitive communication patternthat is found in some families in which some members have schizophrenia and that is associated with higher relapse rate.
What is Express Emotion (EE)?
500
Sensory perceptions that are not directly attributable to environmental stimuli
What is Hallucination?
500
A diagnosis reservied for person's who have had at least one previous schizophrenic episode, but who are now showing an absence of prominent psychotic features.
What is Residual Schizophrenia?
500
More than 50% of recovering patients now return to live with thier families, and with this type of program it has been very successful.