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Defintion of Schizophrenia
Severely impaired cognitive processes, personality disintegration, affective disturbances, and social withdrawal
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What are positive symptoms?
Symptoms of schizo that involve unusual thoughts or perceptions such as delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder or bizarre behavior
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Name the seven common varieties of delusions
thought withdrawal, delusions of grandeur, delusions of reference, delusions of control, delusions of thought broadcasting, delusions of persecution and paranoid ideation
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What are negative symptoms
Inability or decrease ability to initiate actions or speech, express emotions, or feel pleasure
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What is the prodromal phase?
onset and buildup of schizophrenic symptoms social withdrawal and isolation, peculiar behaviors, inappropriate affect, poor communication patterns, and neglect of personal grooming
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Most commonly reported experience for those who have auditory hallucinations
appear to be real to the individual and sometimes have relationship like qualites 61% reported voices have distinct gender 46% believe that voice was family member, friend or acquaintance 80% have back and forth conversation with voices
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What are delusions
False personal beliefs that are firmly and consistently held despite dis-confirming evidence or logic- cannot distinguish between private thoughts and external reality
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What is delusion of grandeur, control, and thought broadcasting?
grandeur- individual believes that they are someone famous or powerful (past or present) Control- individuals may believe that other people, animals, or objects are trying to influence or take control of them Thought broadcasting- others can hear there thoughts
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What is avolitoin and Alogia?
avolition- inabilty to take action or become goal-oriented alogia- lack of meaningful speech
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What is the active phase?
person begins to show full blown symptoms of schizophrenia severe disturbances in thinking, deterioration in social relationships, and flat or markedly inappropriate affect
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what are characteristics of grossly abnormal psychomotor behavior
Extremes in activity levels catatonia, peculiar body movements or postures, strange gestures or grimaces, combinations
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What are delusions of persecution, reference, thought withdrawal and paranoid ideation?
persecution- others are plotting against, mistreating or even trying to kill them reference- center of attention or that all happenings revolve around them thought withdrawal- someone or something is removing thoughts from their mind paranoid ideation- most common delusion, suspiciousness about the actions or motives of others
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What is asociality and restricted affect?
associality- minimal interest in social relationship Restricted affect- little or no emotion
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What leads to active phase
psychosocial stressors or excessive demands on an individual with schizo in the prodromal phase
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What is catatonia
A condition characterized by marked disturbance in motor activity- either extreme excitement or motor immobility
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What are Hallucinations
A sensory perception that is not directly attributed to environmental stimuli- auditory (hearing), visual (seeing), olfactory (smelling), tactile (feelings), gustatory (tasting)
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What is capgras syndrome?
rare delusion- belief in the existence of identical "doubles" who replace significant others.
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What are primary symptoms?
Symptoms that arise from the disease itself
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What is the residual phase?
the symptoms are no longer prominent
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What are the paranoid symptoms of Schizophrenia?
High level of anxiety and worry Experience persecutory delusion (beliefs of being targeted) anger reactions to perceive persecution
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Disorganized thought and speech is characterized by?
primary characteristic of schizo loosening of associations (cognitive slippage)- shifting from topic to topic without any apparent logical or meaningful connection between thoughts incoherent speech or bizarre, idiosyncratic response over inclusiveness or abnormal categorization
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Delusions can produce strong emotinal reactions such as
fear, depression, or anger
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What are secondary symptoms?
Develop as a response to medication and institutionalization, or as a result of mood disorder, such as depression
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How many people show periods of recovery for schizophrenia? (recovery is defined as: absence of psychotic activity and negative symptoms, working half time or more. and no psychiatric hospitalization during the period of evaluation.
40%