Medical Conditions
A serious mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech, and delusions or hallucinations, such as hearing voices.
What is schizophrenia?
Perceptions in the absence of corresponding sensations, such as hearing voices.
What are hallucinations?
This type is characterized by auditory hallucinations or delusional thoughts about persecution or conspiracy
What is paranoid subtype (also known as paranoid schizophrenia?
A very common mental disorder that is characterized by long periods of extreme sadness and accompanied by a variety of physical, cognitive, and emotional symptoms.
What is major depressive disorder?
This medical treatment for mood disorders works on raising serotonin or norepinephrine levels.
What are medications?
A disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania (euphoria) and depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
A person may experience elation, extreme confusion, distractibility, and racing thoughts.
What is mania?
The predominant symptom for this type is disorganization of thought processes.
What is the disorganized (or hebephrenic) subtype?
The most severe bipolar disorder in which manic episodes may cause the person to engage in risky behavior.
What is bipolar I disorder?
"I can conquer the world!" is an example of this.
What is delusion of grandeur?
A type of depression that occurs in some people during the winter months.
What is seasonal affective disorder?
False beliefs maintained in the face of contrary evidence.
What are delusions?
The predominant clinical features in this subtype involve problems with movement and responsiveness to other people or everyday situations.
What is catatonic subtype?
This disorder is sometimes defined as a milder form of bipolar disorder. It causes emotional highs and lows believed to be less extreme than in those experiencing bipolar I or II disorder.
What is cyclothymia?
The neurotransmitter dopamine, found in excess, may suggest an etiology (i.e., cause) of schizophrenia.
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
Also known as affective disorders.
What are mood disorders?
Emotions that are inappropriate for the circumstances.
What is disturbance of affect?
This subtype is diagnosed when people had symptoms of schizophrenia that are not well-formed or specific enough to classify.
What is undifferentiated subtype?
A female experiences extreme mood swings, hopelessness, anger, anxiety, or tension during the premenstrual stage of their menstrual cycle and once she begins her menstruation, the symptoms usually cease.
What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
For seasonal affective disorder, this type of therapy is common and has proved to be useful for reducing some of the depressive feelings being experienced.
What is light therapy?
This type of depressive disorder is long-term, occurring for at least two years for individuals, and the symptoms of depression occasionally lessen during this time.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
The person is unable to focus his or her attention due to cognitive flooding.
What is diverted attention?
The person experiencing this subtype no longer displays prominent symptoms, or they have become less severe.
What is residual (formerly remission) subtype?
This is usually diagnosed in children who exhibit persistent irritability and anger, with frequent episodes of extreme temper outbursts without any observable cause.
What is disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?
This hypothesis states that an individual may have inherited a predisposition toward schizophrenia, but the person must be exposed to an environment with certain stressors before the schizophrenia will develop.
What is the diathesis-stress hypothesis?