Chapter 13- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

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Antipsychotics (Neuroleptics)

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Medications that alleviate or diminish the intensity of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations or delusions.

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Alogia

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Inability to talk; a symptom that often occurs in schizophrenia.

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Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

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Characterized by psychotic like symptoms that are less severe and more transient and that lie below the threshold for a full psychotic disorder.

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Avolition

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Refers to a psychological state that is characterized by a general lack of drive or motivation to pursue meaningful goals. Inability to set goals.

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Brief episodes (lasting a month or less) of otherwise uncomplicated delusional thinking.

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Candidate Genes

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Genes that are of specific interest to researchers because they are thought to be involved and processes that are known to be aberrant in that disorder (E. G., Serotonin transporter genes in depression, or dopamine receptor genes in schizophrenia).

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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Type of schizophrenia in which the central feature is pronounced motor symptoms, of either an excited or a stuporous type, which sometimes make for difficulty in differentiating this condition from a psychotic mood disorder.

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Cognitive Remediation

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Training efforts designed to help patients improve their neurocognitive (E.G., memory, vigilance) skills. The hope is that this will also help improve patients overall levels of functioning.

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Delusion

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False belief about reality maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary.

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Delusional Disorder

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Nurturing, giving voice to, and sometimes taking action on beliefs that are considered completely false by others; formerly called paranoia.

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Type of schizophrenia that usually begins at an earlier age and represents a more severe disintegration of the personality then in the other types of schizophrenia.

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Disorganized Symptoms

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Symptoms such as bizarre behavior or incomprehensible speech.

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Dopamine

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Neurotransmitter from the catecholamine family that is initially synthesized from tyrosine, an amino acid common in the diet. Dopamine is produced from L-dopa by the enzyme dopamine decarboxylase.

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Endophenotypes

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Discrete, measurable traits that are thought to be linked to specific genes that might be important in schizophrenia or other mental disorders.

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Expressed Emotion

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Type of negative communication involving excessive criticism and emotional overinvolvement directed at a patient by family members.

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Flat Effect

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The lack of emotional expression.

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Glutamate

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And excitatory neurotransmitter that is widespread throughout the brain.

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Hallucination

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False perceptions such as things seen or heard that are not real or present.

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Linkage Analysis

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Genetic research strategy and which occurrence of a disorder in an extended family is compared with that of a genetic marker for a physical characteristic or biological process that is known to be located on a particular chromosome.

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Negative Symptoms

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Symptoms that reflect an absence or deficit in normal functions (E. G., blunted affect, social withdrawal).

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

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Type of schizophrenia in which a person is increasingly suspicious, has severe difficulties in interpersonal relationships, and expresses absurd, ill logical, and often changing delusions.

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Positive Symptoms

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Symptoms that are characterized by something being added to normal behavior or experience. Includes delusions, hallucinations, motor agitation, and marked emotional turmoil.

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Prodromal

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Considered to be an early (subclinical) stage of schizophrenia, characterized by very low level symptoms or behavioral idiosyncrasies.

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Psychosis

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Severe impairment in the ability to tell what is real and what is not real.

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Form of psychotic disorder in which the symptoms of schizophrenia cooccur with symptoms of a mood disorder. For example, major depression and schizophrenia.

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Schizophrenia

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Disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, as well as problems in self-care and general functioning.

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Schizophreniform Disorder

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Category of schizophrenic like psychosis less than six months in duration.

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Shared Psychotic Disorder

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Has delusions and paranoia, and they get someone to believe their delusions/beliefs as well. Example, parent to child. Treatment includes separating the two people and locating the discrepancies in the story.