classification of schizophrenia Flashcards
1
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statistics of SZ?
A
- mental health condition
- 1% of population
- more common in males, city dwellers
2
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what are positive symptoms of SZ?
A
atypical symptoms experienced in addition to normal behaviour
3
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examples of positive symptoms?
A
- hallucinations
- delusions
4
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what are hallucinations?
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- unsual sensory experience
- audiotory most common
- visual= seeing things not there
- can be olfactory (smell) or tactile (touch)
- related to environmental stimuli or random
5
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what are delusions?
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- paranoia
- strongly held false beliefs
- persit even when evidence against belief
- persecutory delusions-> believing others trying to harm them
6
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what are negative symptoms?
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- atypical symptoms that are disruption to normal emotions/behaviour.
- symptoms can be mistaken for depression
7
Q
examples of negative symptoms?
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- flat effect-> reduced emotion
- avolition
- speech poverty
8
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what is avolition?
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- loss of motivation to carry out daily tasks
- sometimes called apathy
- Andreason-> 3 signs of it= poor hygiene, lack of energy, lack of persistence in work/ed
9
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what is speech poverty?
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- reduction in amount and quality of speech
- can delay response in convo
- eg do you have any siblings? yes
