After midterm #2 - antipsychotics

Question 1

Schizophrenia (psychotic disorder) - 2 or more of the features.

Answer 1

DSM-5 Key Features that Define the Psychotic Disorders

Question 2

Positive symptoms (3)

Answer 2

1) delusions (distortions of reality, misevaluations and erroneous conclusions, paranoia, grandeur)
2) hallucinations (auditory most common)
3) disorganized thinking (speech) - faulty logic and reasoning/word salad

Question 3

schizo “split” phrenology “mid”

Answer 3

separation between thought, emotion, behaviour

Question 4

Negative symptoms (the five As)

Answer 4

affect flattened: unresponsive or blunted emotional responses; immobile, unresponsive face

alogia: impoverished speech; brief, uncommunicative replies

abolition: inability to initate or participate in goal-directed activities

anhedonia: loss of ability to experience pressure

asociality: socially withdrawn

Question 5

When symptoms appear

Answer 5

over 3-5 years, -ve first then +ve

Question 6

Szhiz stats

Answer 6

1% of general population, men=women

biological/genetic predisposition

risk developing SZ depends on degree of relatedness to SZ

Higher concordance rate for MZ than DZ twins

Mutations on a number of chromosomes create vulnerability

Vulnerability depends on evnrionemtnal influences to promote expression of genes