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4. Psychotic Disorders Flashcards

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What feature puts schizophrenic patients at HIGH suicide risk?

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demoralization

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Definition: mental disorder in which the thoughts, affective response, ability to recognize reality, and the ability to communicate and relate to others are sufficiently impaired to interfere grossly with the capacity to deal with reality

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Psychosis

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What are the classical characteristics of psychosis?

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  • Impaired reality testing
  • Hallucinations (internally generated perceptions)
  • Delusions (fixed, false beliefs)
  • Illusions
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Definition: persistent, prominent delusions and/or hallucinations that developed during or soon after substance intoxication or withdrawal or after exposure to a medication that is capable of producing the symptoms

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substance/medication induced psychotic disorder

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True or false: substance/medication induced psychotic disorder is another term for delirium

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FALSE

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What are common general medical conditions that may lead to a psychotic disorder?

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malignant lung CA, MS, brain injury, hypothyroidism

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What must you prove to diagnose a psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition?

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-Evidence from history, physical, and labs that psychosis is due to physiological effects of a medical condition and DID NOT PRECEDE the onset of the medical condition and DOES NOT exclusively occur during a delirium

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Definition: severe psychomotor disturbance that may be associated with many different disorders (ex. schizophrenia, depressive stupor, etc.)

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catatonia

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What do you have to do when a patient has catatonia?

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ALWAYS think of a medical cause first

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What does a patient with catatonia look like?

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WAXY FLEXIBILITY, mutism, no response (alert and awake but will not follow demands and has NO movements)

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How do you treat catatonia?

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benzodiazepines or ECT

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What must you NEVER give to a catatonic patient?

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antipsychotics (may lead to malignant catatonia, VS instability and death)

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What is the idea behind ECT?

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used to treat seizures and depression (massive release of catecholamines)

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Definition: disorder characterized by acute alteration of consciousness iwth fluctuating disturbances in cognition, perception, behavior, affect and sleep due to an underlying physical cause (ex. drugs, metabolic or electrolyte abnormalities, endocrine disorders, etc.)

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delirium

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True or false: you should always first rule out a mental illness before assessing that a patient is delirious

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FALSE: always rule out delirium first!

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What are the key features of delirium?

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not oriented to time, place, person or situation

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What are the risk factors for delirium?

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  • Very young or very old (less cognitive reserve)
  • Preexisting medical conditions or cognitive impairment
  • Patients in hospitals/nursing homes
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How long does delirium last?

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hours to days

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Delirium: acute or prolonged onset?

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acute (hours to days)

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Delirium: constant or fluctuating course

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fluctuating (varies in quality and intensity with a 24 hour period or between consecutive days)

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Delirium: how is the attention span?

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impaired attention (very distractable)

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Delirium: affects short-term or long-term memory

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short-term (impaired registration, consolidation, retention and retrieval)

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Delirium: how is the though pattern?

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disorganized (illogical flow of ideas)

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Who is more likely to have a bizarre hallucination- a delirious patient or a psychotic patient?

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delirium

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How is sleeping in a delirious patient?

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daytime drowsiness with frequent napping and nighttime insomnia/sleep fragmentation

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How do you diagnose delirium?

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EEG shows diffuse slowing of dominant rhythms, generalized delta waves and loss of reactivity of EEG to eye opening and closing

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List some secondary syndromes (that can lead to delirium)

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  • Neurodegenerative conditions
  • MS
  • Traumatic brain injury
  • Epilepsy
  • AIDS
  • Systemic inflammatory disease
  • OSA
  • Pheochromocytoma or endocrine tumors
  • Vitamin deficiencies
  • Chemo
  • Iatrogenic (ex. drug side effects)
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Definition: syndrome of general loss of cognitive functions and significant functional deterioration

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dementia

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How does DAT (dementia of Alzheimer’s type) begin?

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short-term memory loss with early perceptual disturbances (ex, apraxia, aphasia, agnosia)

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Where do lesions occur in Alzheimer’s disease?

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Hippocampus and POSTERIOR BRAIN with distruction of Ach neurons in the nucleus basalis

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What are the 2 major genetic risk factors for early onset DAT?

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APOE4

Trisomy 21

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How do FTDs begin?

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personality changes or mood symptoms

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Where do lesions occur in FTDs?

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prefrontal and temporal cortices, BG and limbic areas

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What are some symptoms of FTDs?

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marked aphasia

disordered motor function (ex. chorea, gait disturbances, incontinence)

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For dementia caused by HIV or AIDs, what symptoms occur?

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prominent frontal symptoms (personality change and movement disorder)

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What is characteristic of MS-related dementia?

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worse during flares

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What is a feature that may be seen in autoimmune disorder induced dementia?

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rapidly progressive if disease is uncontrolled and can lead to seizures

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True or false: alcohol-induced dementia is permanent.

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TRUE (but can stop progression if you stop drinking)

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What is Wernicke’s encephalopathy?

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thiamine deficiency (related to alcoholism or malnutrition)

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What brain portion is affected in thiamine deficiency?

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mammilary bodies

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What is Korsakoff’s psychosis?

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irreversible, severe loss of short term memory that can occur after Wernicke’s encephalopathy

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What are features of dementia caused by hypothyroidism?

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  • Sluggishness
  • Loss of motivation
  • Slowed through
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What features commonly accompany B12/folate deficiency related dementia?

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anemia

peripheral neuropathy

44
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What features accompany normal pressure hydrocephalus?

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prominent gait disturbances
incontinence
personality changes

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What are the pathological findings of DAT?

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  • Beta amyloid
  • Tau proteins
  • Neurofibrillary tangles
  • Presenillin 1 and 2
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What happens late in DAT?

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personality changes, depression, paranoia, etc.

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What is the second most prevalent cause of dementia?

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vascular dementia

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What is the genetic cause of Huntington Disease?

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Autosomal Dominant CAG repeats on chromosome 4 (causing increased huntingtin protein)

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What parts of the brain are affected in HD?

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caudate nucleus

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What are the dementia symptoms in HD?

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paranoia
impulsive dyscontrol
memory loss
psychosis
chorea
51
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What does neuroimaging of HD show?

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characteristic “butterfly” pattern

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What part of the brain is affected in Parkinson Disease?

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cortical radiations of DA neurons originating in the BG

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What are the pathological findings of Parkinson disease?

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  • Lewy bodies (alpha synuclein)

- Cholinergic deterioration-driven changes

54
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What are the s/s of Parkinson Disease?

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tremor
rigidity
cogwheeling
memory loss
paranoia
apathy
aggression
55
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Does dementia occur in every PD patient?

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NO–occurs LATE in 24-31% of PD patients

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How does the pahtology of PD dementia differ from Lewy Body dementia?

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LBD is similar to PD but SPARES TEMPORAL AREAS

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What are the s/s of Lewy body dementia?

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  • Severe motor symptoms
  • visual hallucinations
  • early memory loss
  • personality changes
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True or false: Lewy body dementia is the second most common cause of dementia

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FALSE: second most common PRIMARY cause of dementia (rarer than DAT)

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What is another name for FTD?

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Pick Disease

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What are symtpoms of Pick Disease?

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  • Impulsive/disinhibited or anergic/apathetic
  • Poor hygeine
  • Loss of social skills
  • Aphasia
  • No insight
  • Memory may be spared
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Timeline for Schizophreniform disorder.

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First episode of Schizophrenia-like symptoms that lasts less than 6 months

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What are positive symptoms?

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Unusual things the patient DOES (psychotic behaviors like delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking or speech, disorganized motor behavior (catatonia)

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What are delusions of reference?

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patient believes random events are directed at them specifically

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Definition: false beliefs not changed by evidence or reason

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delusion

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What are negative symptoms?

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disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors (deficits)

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Definition: decrease in motivated and self-initiated purposeful activity

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avolition

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Definition: diminished speech output

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alogia

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Definition: diminished ability to experience pleasure

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anhedonia

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Definition: lack of interest in social interactions

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asociality

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Which is more commonly missed, positive or negative symptoms?

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Negative symptoms (mistaken for laziness, depression or unwillingness to help oneself)

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What is the most common psychotic disorder?

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schizophrenia

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What gender is schizophrenia most common in?

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male = female (but males more likely to present early)

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What is the course of schizophrenia like?

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  • Chronic

- Periods of remission (person can recover significantly and lead a gratifying and productive life) and exacerbations

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When does schizophrenia typically present?

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usually in adolescence and young adulthood (rarely after 40 yo)

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What are the 3 distinct phases of schizophrenia?

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Prodromal
Active
Residual

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When does the prodromal phase of schizophrenia start?

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adolescence/early adulthood

77
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What occurs in the prodromal phase of schizophrenia?

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Gradual changes in behavior that may appear like personality or mood changes (lasting weeks to months)

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When does the active phase of schizophrenia start?

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usually leads the patient to seek treatment

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What occurs in the active phase of schizophrenia?

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delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and behavior

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What occurs in the residual phase of schizophrenia?

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continuing oddities of thinking and behavior (LACK OF MOTIVAITON) delusions or hallucinations are usually absent

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Abnormal thought form: loss of meaning due to random connections/loose associations between ideas

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derailment

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Abnormal thought form: responses to questions are only partially or remotely connected to the topic

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tangential

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Abnormal thought form: excessively detailed or circuitous speech, yet still responsive to the question

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circumstantial

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Abnormal thought form: creation of words with unique meaning understood only by the individual

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neologism

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Abnormal thought form: losing track of the goal of speech and not being able to return to the topic

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blocking

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Abnormal thought form: complete disregard for conventions of word usage or grammar (incoherence)

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word salad

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Abnormal thought form: the sounds of words, instead of the meanings or conventions of speech, determine the flow of speech

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clanging

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Abnormal thought form: repetition of words or phrases

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perseveraiton

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What are some connections between environmental factors and schizophrenia?

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birth injury
intrauterine malnutrition
exposure to cytokines
infections in the 2nd trimester

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How long must prominent psychotic symptoms last in the active phase of schizophrenia to meet diagnosis?

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> 1 month

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For how many months must a patient be sick to be diagnosed with schizophrenia?

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6 months or more

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If patient has his first schizophrenia like episode and recovers faster than 6 months, what is the diangosis?

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schizophreniform disorder

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What is the pathology associated with schizophrenia?

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  • decreased blood flow to frontal lobes
  • thinning of medial temporal lobe cortex, frontal cortex, and anterior portions of the hippocampus
  • enlarged lateral and third ventricles
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What are common comorbidities of schizophrenia?

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smoking

substance use

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What is the prognosis for schizophrenia?

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reduced life expectance (~10 yrs)

suicide in 10-15% of cases

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Definition: major mood disorder (depression or mania) concurrent with schizoprenia-like psychosis

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Schizoaffective disorder

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What is the timeline for diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder?

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psychotic symptoms persist during periods where mood symptoms are absent for >2 weeks

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Definition: circumscribed and often bizarre delusions in an otherwise normal-appearing patient

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delusional disorder

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When does delusional disorder usually develop?

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later in life than other schizophrenia spectrum disorders

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Definition: transient psychosis precipitated by stress

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brief psychotic disorder

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How long do brief psychotic disorders last?

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usually remit rapidly with minimum intervention (usually do not recur)

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What is schizotypal disorder?

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personality disorder (cluster A) or SSD characterized by pervasive patterns of interpersonal deficits, eccentrities, odd thinking/speech, suspiciousness, ideas of reference, etc.

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