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Chapter 9 - Schizophrenia Flashcards

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Disorder characterized by disturbances in thought, emotion and behavior

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Schizophrenia

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3 Main domains of Schizophrenia symptoms

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Positive, Negative, Disorganized

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excesses and distortions, such as hallucinations and delusions

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Positive symptoms

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beliefs contrary to reality and firmly held in spite of disconfirming evidence

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delusions

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the belief that a persons thoughts are not his or her own and that they have been placed in his or her mind by an external source

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thought insertion

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belief that a person’s thoughts are broadcasted or transmitted so that others know what he or she is thinking

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thought broadcasting

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exaggerated sense of a person’s own importance, power, knowledge, or identity

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grandiose delusions

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incorporating unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others

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ideas of reference

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sensory experiences in the absence of any relevant stimulation from the environment, possibly from misattributions, differences in Broca’s Area

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hallucinations

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Behavioral deficits; presence of which suggest poor quality of life

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negative symptoms

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Examples of negative symptoms

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avolition, asociality, anhedonia, blunted affect, alogia

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Lack of motivation and a seeming absence of interest in or an inability to persist in what are usually routine activities

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avolition or apathy

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Severe impairments in social relationships

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asociality

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loss of interest in or a reported lessening of the experience of pleasure

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anhedonia

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the amount of pleasure experienced in the moment or in the presence of something pleasureable

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consummatory pleasure

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the amount of expected or anticipated pleasure from future events or activities

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anticipatory pleasure

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People with schizophrenia appear to have a deficit in _________ but not __________

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anticipatory pleasure, consummatory pleasure

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Lack of outward expression of emotion

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Blunted affect

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Significant reduction in the amount of speech

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Alogia

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2 domains for symptoms

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experience domain, expression domain

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Problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that a listener can understand

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Disorganized speech/ Formal thought disorder

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Successful in communicating with a listener but difficulty in sticking to one topic

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loose association/ derailment

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Acting weird

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disorganized behavior

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People with this symptom make gesture repeatedly which often seem purposeful.

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Catatonia

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People adopt unusual postures and maintain them for long periods of time

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catatonic immobility

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other person moves limbs, the patient retains position

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waxy flexibility

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Diagnosis schizophrenia

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6 months
1 acute episode defined by the presence of at least 2 of the following symptoms
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, abnormal psychomotor behavior, negative symptoms

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2 Brief psychotic disorders

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schizophreniform disorder

brief psychotic disorder

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Symptoms are the same as schizophrenia but only last from 1-6 monts

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schizophreniform disorder

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Lasts 1 day -1 month and is often brought on by extreme stress

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brief psychotic disorder

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Compromises a mixture of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorders. Requires either a depressive or manic episode

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Schizoaffective disorder

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Troubled by persistent delusions of persecution or by delusional jealousy

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delusional disorder

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Stressors associated with SES and urban living contribute to the development of a

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Sociogenic hypothesis

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People with s drift into poor neighborhoods because their illness impairs earning power

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Social selection hypothesis

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Medications that produce side effects similar to the symptoms of neurological disease

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Antipsychotic drugs neuroleptic

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Common side effects of antipsychotic drugs

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Dizziness blurred vision restlessness sexual dysfunction

Extra pyramidal side effects tardive dyskinesia neuroleptic malignant syndrome

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Trampers of the fingers, shuffling gait, drooling

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Extra pyramidal side effects

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Inability to remain still

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Akasthesia

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State of muscular rigidity

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Dystonia

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Mouth muscles involuntary make sucking, chin wagging motions

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Severe muscular rigidity

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Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

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Training designed to teach people how to successfully manage a wide variety if interpersonal situations.

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Social skills training

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type of study begins with one or two biological parents with schiz and follows their offspring longitudinally in order to identify how many of these children may develop shiz and what types of childhood neurobiological and behavioral factors may predict the disorder’s onset

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familial high-risk study

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History of pregnancy and birth complications and a failure to show electrodermal responses to simple stimuli

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Negative symptoms

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History of family instability such as separation from parents and placement in foster homes or institutions for a period of time

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Positive symptoms

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Predictors

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Low IQ
poor neurobehavioral functioning
parent with schiz

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receptor associated with the effectiveness of some medications used to treat schiz

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d2 receptors

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encodes protein dysbindin

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DTNBP1

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impacts the dopamine and glutamate neurotransmitter systems

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dysbindin

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helpful in myelination

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NMDA

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problems in planning working memory and problem solving shows issues in

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prefrontal cortex

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3 important points about mutations

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rare
small number have schiz
not specific to schiz

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neurotransmitter found in low levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of people with schiz

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glutamate

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Brain change correlated with impaired performance on neuropsychological tests, poor functioning prior to the onset of the disorder, poor response to drug treatment

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enlarged ventricles

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small projections on the shafts of dendrites where nerve impulses are received from other neurons at the synapse

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Dendritic spines

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parasite

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toxoplasma gondii

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