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Presentation and Symptoms
Prevalence and Comorbidity
Causal Factors and Psychology Theories
Relevant Terminology
Potpourri
100
Significant loss of contact with reality
What is Psychosis?
100
The gender that is at higher risk for Schizophrenia
What are males?
100
The earliest risk factors in developing Schizophrenia
What is Prenatal Exposures?
100
This approach utilizes first and second generation antipsychotic drugs
What is the Pharmacological Approach?
100
The amount of symptoms required for a diagnosis
What is 2 or more?
200
Erroneous belief that are fixed and firmly held despite clear contradictory evidence
What are Delusions?
200
Onset age typically
What is 18-30 years old?
200
Finding many abnormalities in this body part in common in Schizophrenia
What is the brain?
200
Absence or deficit of normally present behaviors
What is Negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
200
Schizophrenia symptoms that last less than 6 months
What is Schizophreniform disorder
300
Failure to make sense despite conforming to semantic and syntactic rules of speech
What is Disorganized Speech?
300
Prevalence is highest in these five cultural aspect
What is Cannabis abuse, Immigration, Urban living, families and relapse?
300
If this family member had Schizophrenia you would be at most risk for also developing Schizophrenia
What is an identical twin?
300
The perspective that focuses on brain development
What is Neurodevelopmental Persoective?
300
Schizophrenia symptoms that last under a month
What is Brief psychotic disorder?
400
Sensory experience that seems real but occurs in absence of any external perceptual stimulus.
What are Hallucinations?
400
Lifetime prevalence of Schizophrenia
What is 1/140 people?
400
The model used for causal factors of Schizophrenia
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
400
Excess or distortion in normal repertoire of behavior and experience
What is Positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
400
Schizophrenia is a Synthesis of these three factors
What is Multiple genetic factors, Environmental factors and Current thinking emphasizes interplay
500
Impairment of goal directed activity that occurs in areas of daily functioning.
What is Disorganized Behavior?
500
Risk of Schizophrenia is increased if father is
What is over the age of 45?
500
The neurotransmitters implicated in Schizophrenia
What is Dopamine and Glutamate?
500
This is the overall organization of cells in brain, may be compromised in Schizophrenia
What is Cytoarchitecture?
500
The psychosocial approach uses these mainly these five ways of helping patients with Schizophrenia
What is Family therapy, Case management, Social-skills training, Cognitive remediation, and Cognitive-behavioral therapy?