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this because he smoked some bad weed?
this because he smoked some bad weed?
Regular use of this psychoactive substance, especially during teenage years, has been shown to trigger psychosis in genetically predisposed individuals.
What is cannabis/marijuana/weed?
Schizophrenia typically begins in this stage of life, when brain development and social stress peak.
What is late adolescence or early adulthood?
This Florida law allows for the involuntary examination of a person showing signs of mental illness and possible danger to self or others.
What is the Baker Act?
This type of hallucination — hearing voices that others do not — is the most common in schizophrenia.
What is an auditory hallucination?
This class of antipsychotics primarily block dopamine D2 receptors and often cause extrapyramidal side effects.
What are typical/first generation antipsychotics?
+50 High OR Low Potency used to treat schizophrenia?
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Being born or raised in this type of setting — often associated with social stress, pollution, and crowding — has been linked to higher schizophrenia rates.
What is an urban environment/city?
Before the first psychotic episode, many individuals experience this early phase lasting weeks to years, marked by subtle cognitive, social, and emotional changes.
What is the prodromal phase?
This Florida law allows for court-ordered, involuntary assessment and treatment for individuals with substance abuse issues.
What is the Marchman Act?
Hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech are considered this class of schizophrenia symptoms, while lack of motivation, reduced emotional expression, and social withdrawal are examples of this class.
What are positive and negative symptoms?
This class of antipsychotics blocks both dopamine D2 and serotonin 5-HT2A receptors, often causing less extrapyramidal symptoms but more metabolic side effects.
What are atypical/second-generation antipsychotics?
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This process, which involves leaving one’s home country, can increase schizophrenia risk due to social isolation, discrimination, and cultural stress.
What is migration?
Emergence of frank psychotic symptoms, such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking, are the hallmark of this phase of schizophrenia.
What is the active (or acute) phase?
Under the Florida Mental Health Act, an individual can be held for up to this many hours for mental health evaluation.
What is 72 hours?
This thought process disorder, often seen in schizophrenia, is characterized by speech in which ideas jump from one topic to another with little or no logical connection.
What is looseness of association/derailment?
This endocrine side effect, often caused by antipsychotics, can lead to galactorrhea, amenorrhea, infertility, gynecomastia, and erectile dysfunction.
What is hyperprolactinemia?
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A high rate of spontaneous genetic mutations in sperm at the time of conception is the cause of this schizophrenia risk factor.
What is advanced paternal age?
Negative symptoms and mild cognitive impairment often persist into this stage of schizophrenia, after treatment or spontaneous improvement.
What is the residual phase?
The first criterion for an individual to be involuntarily admitted under the Marchman Act is that they have lost the power of this with respect to substance use.
What is self-control?
Believing that others are plotting against you, spying on you, or trying to harm you is called this type of delusion.
What is a persecutory/paranoid delusion?
+50 Which part of mental status exam?
+50 Identify AND Define another type.
Aripiprazole is a unique atypical antipsychotic because it acts as this at dopamine D2 receptors.
What is a partial agonist?
An imbalance in this neurotransmitter system — particularly overactivity in this pathway — has long been implicated in the development of schizophrenia.
What is dopamine and the mesolimbic pathway?
The long term course of schizophrenia varies widely — some have one episode and recover fully, while others have multiple recurrences — a pattern known as this.
What is a relapsing-remitting course?
These are distinct individuals who have had three involuntary examinations within a 180 day period.
What are high utilizers?
This is the persistent and inappropriate repetition of a particular response, thought, or action, despite the stimulus ceasing or the topic of conversation changing.
What is perseveration?
+50 Which part of mental status exam?
+50 Identify AND Define another type.
Sometimes caused by antipsychotics, this is a rare life-threatening adverse effect that manifests with high fever, altered mental status, muscle rigidity, and autonomic instability.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?