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Chapter 6: Schizophrenia Flashcards

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1
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Translation of Schizophrenia

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“Split personality”

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What disorder is schizophrenia confused with?

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Dissociative identity disorder (split personality)

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Who coined the term schizophrenia?

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Paul Eugen Bleuler

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Dementia praecox

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Early form of dementia

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What is the distinction made between psychotic disorders and mood disorders?

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Kraepelinian Dichotomy

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Who was responsible for Kraepelinian Dichotomy?

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Emile Kraepelin

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Frequency - brief psychotic disorder

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1 day - 1 month

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Frequency - delusional disorder

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No less then one month

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Frequency - schizoaffective disorder

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Presence of HALLUCINATIONS for at least 2 weeks

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Frequency - schizophreniform disorder

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1 - 6 months

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Frequency - schizophrenia

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Continuous symptoms for 6 months or more

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Catatonia

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Not showing emotions in voice or on face

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Waxy flexibility

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Can be moved around like a puppet

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Avolition

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Reduced or absent motivation to perform activities

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Alogia

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Reduction or absence of speech production

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Anhedonia

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Loss of pleasure in things once seen as pleasurable

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Which disorder occurs most frequently? Prevalence?

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Brief psychotic disorders : 9%

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Percent of homeless individuals with schizophrenia?

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4 to 16%

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Primary cause of death for patients with schizophrenia;

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Suicide, cancer, cardiovascular disease

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Percent of people with schizophrenia who commit suicide

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20% attempt and 6% complete

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Is late onset schizophrenia (after 40) more common in men or women?

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Women

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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia: 7

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Delusions
Hallucinations 
Disorganized thinking & speech
Communication exaggeration & distortion
Disorganized behavior
Catatonic symptoms
Agitation
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia: 8

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Affective blunting
Social & emotional withdrawal
Passivity
Problems with abstract thinking
Alogia
Avolition
Anhedonia
Impaired attention
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DSM 5 - Schizophrenia

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Delusions
Hallucinations 
Disorganized speech
Catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms (i.e diminished emotional expression or avolition)

w/o major depressive or manic episodes
cannot be attributed to a substance
no history of autism spectrum disorder (only with prominent delusions or hallucinations)

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Prevalence of schizophrenia ; gender ratio

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1% ; 1:1

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Average onset of schizophrenia

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Females 28 Males 23 (typical between age 10-23)

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Seven subtypes of delusional disorder:

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Jealous, erotomanic, grandiose, persecutory, somatic, mixed, and unspecified

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Delusional subtype: delusion centered around another person being in love with oneself

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Erotomanic

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Delusional subtype: delusions involving oneself as being especially important or talented ie. the belief you’re the president or inventor of toothpaste

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Grandiose

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Delusional subtype: delusions centered around one’s partner being unfaithful

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Jealous

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Delusional subtype: delusions related to someone cheating, conspiring against, or persecuting oneself ie. the cia is after me, my phones are tapped

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Persecutory

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Delusional subtype: delusions involving a physiological function or sensation ie. the pain in my stomach must be cancer

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Somatic

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Schizoaffective disorder -

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Schizophrenia plus a mood disorder

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Dopamine hypothesis -

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Suggesting the disorder is due to excessive dopamine in specific brain regions

35
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Antipsychotics two categories:

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Typical and atypical

36
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Schizophrenia 3 stages of onset;

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Prodromal phase, active phase, residual phase

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Phase? - first indications; decreased functioning, social isolation, poor self care

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Prodromal phase

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Hallucinations -

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Sensory perception without external stimuli

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Most common type of hallucinations?

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Auditory

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What else can cause hallucinations?

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Brain tumors
Deafness
Convulsions
Hyper & hypothyroidism

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The rule of 4 -

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1/4 can function well with medication
1/4 require living in a facility
1/4 do poorly
1/4 one episode and are never sick again

42
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Who thought Jodie Foster was in love with him and tried to kill president Reagen?

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John Hinckley

43
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Types of medication:

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Antidepressants
Benzodiazepines
Mood stabilizers
Antipsychotics

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