Clinical characteristics of schizophrenia Flashcards
1
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Positive symptoms
A
Delusions, hallucinations and disorganised thinking and speech
2
Q
Delusions of persecution
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Believe they are being followed or spied upon
3
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Delusions of grandeur
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Inflated about the persons, power and importance
4
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Hallucinations
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Bizarre, unreal perceptions of the environment
5
Q
Disorganised thinking and speech
A
Word salad, where speech is derailed
6
Q
Negative symptoms
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Poverty of speech, and avolition
7
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Poverty of speech (Alogia)
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Reduction in the amount and quality of speech
8
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Avolition
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Reduction of interest, and desires, as well as an inability to initiate and persist in goal directed behaviour
