Ch 11

Question 1

Schizophrenia

Answer 1

A disorder characterized by severely impaired cognitive process, personality disintegration, mood disturbances, and social with drawls

Question 2

Schizophrenia spectrum

Answer 2

A group of disorders that range in severity and that have similar clinical features, including some degree of reality distortion

Question 3

Psychosis

Answer 3

A condition involving loss of contact with or distorted view of reality, including disorganized thinking, false beliefs, or seeing or hearing things that are not there

Question 4

Positive symptoms

Answer 4

Symptoms of schizophrenia that involve unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as delusions hallucinations disordered thinking or bizarre behavior

Question 5

Delusions

Answer 5

A false belief that is firmly and consistently held

Question 6

Paranoid ideation

Answer 6

Suspiciousness about the actions or motives of others

Question 7

Persecutory delusions

Answer 7

Beliefs Of being targeted by others

Question 8

Hallucination

Answer 8

A sensory experience (such as an image, sound, smell, or taste) that seems real but that does not exist outside of the mind

Question 9

Cognitive symptoms

Answer 9

Symptoms of schizophrenia associated with problems with attention, memory, and developing a plan of action

Question 10

Loosening of associations

Answer 10

Continual shifting from topic to topic without any apparent logical or meaningful connection between thoughts

Question 11

Catatonia

Answer 11

A condition characterized by marked disturbance in motor activity either extreme excitement or motoric inability

Question 12

Negative symptoms

Answer 12

Symptoms of schizophrenia associated with an inability or decreased ability to initiate actions or speech, express emotions, or feel pressure

Question 13

Avolition

Answer 13

Lack of motivation; an inability to take action or become goal oriented

Question 14

Alogia

Answer 14

Lack of meaningful speech

Question 15

Asociality

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Minimal interest in social relationships

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Anhedonia

Answer 16

Inability to experience pleasure from previously enjoyed activities

Question 17

Diminished emotional expression

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Reduced display of observable verbal and nonverbal behaviors that communicate internal emotions

Question 18

Premorbid

Answer 18

Before the onset of major symptoms

Question 19

Endophenotypes

Answer 19

Measurable characteristics (neurochemical, endocrinological, neuroanatomical, cognitive, or neuropsychological) That can give clues regarding the specific genes involved in a disorder

Question 20

Dopamine hypothesis

Answer 20

The suggestion that schizophrenia may result from excess dopamine activity at certain synaptic sites

Question 21

Expressed emotion

Answer 21

A negative communication pattern found among some relatives of individuals with schizophrenia

Question 22

Pre-frontal lobotomy

Answer 22

A surgical procedure in which the frontal lobe’s are disconnected from the remainder of the brain

Question 23

First generation antipsychotics

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A group of medications originally developed to combat psychotic symptoms by reducing dopamine levels in the brain; also called conventional or typical antipsychotics

Question 24

Atypical antipsychotics

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Newer antipsychotic medications that are chemically different and less likely to produce the side effects associated with first generation antipsychotics

Question 25

Extrapyramidial Symptoms

Answer 25

Side effects such as restlessness, involuntary movements, and muscular tension produced by antipsychotic medications

Question 26

Metabolic syndrome

Answer 26

A medical condition associated with obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and hypertension

Question 27

Delusional disorder

Answer 27

Persistent delusions without other unusual or odd behaviors; tactile and olfactory hallucinations related to the delusions theme maybe present

Question 28

Brief psychotic disorder

Answer 28

Psychotic episodes with a duration of at least one day but less than one month

Question 29

Schizophreniform disorder

Answer 29

Psychotic episode with the duration of at least one month but less than six months

Question 30

Schizoaffective disorder

Answer 30

A condition involving the existence of both symptoms of schizophrenia and major depressive or manic symptoms