15.4 Schizophrenia

Question 1

Schizophrenia

Answer 1

a brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems wiht attention and memory

Question 2

Prodromal phase of Schizophrenia

Answer 2

people may become easily confused and have difficulty organizing their thoughts, they may lose interest and begin to withdraw from friends and family, and they may lose their normal motivations, withdraw from life, and spend increasing amounts of time alone, often deeply engrossed in their own thoughts

Question 3

Active phase

Answer 3

people typically experience delusional thoughts, hallucinations, or disorganized patterns of thoughts, emotions, and behaviour

Question 4

Residual phase

Answer 4

people’s predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened considerably and they may simply be withdrawn, have trouble concentrating, and generally lack motivation

Question 5

Positive symptoms

Answer 5

the presence of maladaptive behaviours, such as confused and paranoid thinking, and inappropriate emotional reactions

Question 6

Negative symptoms

Answer 6

the absence of adaptive behaviour, such as absent or flat emotional reactions, lack of interacting with others in a social setting

Question 7

Hallucinations

Answer 7

alternations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in that person’s own mind

Question 8

Delusions

Answer 8

beliefs that are not based on or well-integrated with reality

Question 9

Disorganized behaviour

Answer 9

the considerable difficulty people with schizophrenia may have completing the tasks of everyday life

Question 10

Paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 10

symptoms include delusional beliefs that one is being followed, watched, or persecuted, and may also include delusions of grandeur or the belief that one has some secret, insight, power, or some other characteristic that makes one particularly special

Question 11

Disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 11

symptoms include thoughts, speech, behaviours, and emotion’s that are poorly integrated and incoherent. May also show inappropriate, unpredictable mannerisms

Question 12

Catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 12

symptoms include episodes in which a person remians mute and immobile - sometiems in bizarre positions - for extended periods. individuals may also exhibit repetitive, purposeless movements

Question 13

Neurodevelopmental hypothesis

Answer 13

the adult manifestation of what we call “schizophrenia” is the outgrowth of disrupted neurological development early in the person’s life