Diagnosis
The process of understanding which mental disorder can best explain an individuals symptoms.
What is diagnosis?
Genetics and biochemical.
What are the biological causes of schizophrenia?
Life-long.
What is timeline of schizophrenia treatment?
The main concept of Oruc's study.
Lack of concentration, not wanting to leave the house, changes in sleeping patterns.
What are examples of negative symptoms?
Any change in behavior or thoughts.
What are positive symptoms?
The brains of those with schizophrenia produce more dopamine than those without the disorder.
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
The most common treatment is used to manage signs and symptoms at the lowest possible dose effectively.
What are antipsychotic medications?
This researcher suggests that delusion thinking arises from misinterpretation of perception, meaning that thoughts that are actually self-generated instead appear to be coming from an external source.
Who is Frith?
Hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, and speech, delusions.
What are examples of positive symptoms?
A loss of interest and motivation in life.
What are negative symptoms?
"Schizophrenia and related disorders involve faulty mental processes, rather than relying solely on physiological explanations" describes what approach?
What is the cognitive approach to abnormality?
The form of treatment that has now been proven ineffective.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
They interviewed the patients and their twins, participants undertook cognitive tests, and case summaries of each participant were made.
What were the steps Gottesman and Shields took in their study?
Twins that share their entire DNA.
What are monozygotic twins?
When an individual sees or hears something that is not there.
What are hallucinations?
Behaviors are rarely seen in most people.
What is abnormality?
Reliable and standardized.
What are the strengths of the Paul and Lentz study?
Investigated the effectiveness of one operant conditioning strategy to reinforce appropriate behavior with schizophrenic patients.
Who are Paul and Lenz?
Twins that share about 50% of their DNA.
What are dizygotic twins?
Beliefs or thoughts that conflict with reality.
What are delusions?
An excessive amount of ________ relates to positive symptoms of schizophrenia, also an increase in Broca's region which can impair logical speech.
What is dopamine?
Low ecological validity and ethical issues.
This study found that out of 57 pairs of twins, 50% of monozygotic twins had a shared schizophrenic status, and only 9% of dizygotic twins did.
Patients live collectively in a clinic or treatment center and are encouraged to look after both themselves and each other, to promote social engagement and relationship building.
What is milieu therapy?