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E3 Schizophrenia Flashcards

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1
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What personality type usually links to schizophrenia?

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Schizotypal

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What disorder has delusions of 1 month or longer w/o sig impairment?

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Delusional Disorder

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What is identical to schizophrenia but has a reduced duration (impairment might not be present)? How long?

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Schizophreniform; between 1-6 months

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What is a combination of mood disorder episode and schizophrenia?

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Schizoaffective

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Are all schizophrenics violent?

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Mostly not, but more violent then the general population

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Do schizophrenics have split or multiple personalities?

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No, Not DID

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What type of disturbances is schizophrenia?

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Heterogenous

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What does heterogenous disturbances mean?

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There is very differing symptoms

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What are the four symptoms of schizophrenia?

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  1. Positive symptoms
  2. Disorganized speech
  3. Disorganized/catatonic behavior
  4. Negative symptoms
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What symptoms are when something is added?

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Positive Symptoms

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What symptoms are when something is removed?

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Negative Symptoms

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What are the 3 required symptoms? (atleast 1 required)

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  1. Hallucinations
  2. Delusions
  3. Disorganized speech
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What is a symptom that is a fixed belief not amenable to change that is about a misrepresentation of reality?

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Delusions

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What is the difference between a bizarre and a non-bizarre delusion?

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Bizarre is impossible and does not come from real-life experience, while non-bizarre “could” happen

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A clinical delusion cannot be

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Swayed

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What are delusions of being a famous person or messiah? (Exaggeration of self-importance)

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Delusions of Grandeur

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What are beliefs that one is going to be conspired against, cheated, or harmed?

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Delusions of Persecution

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18
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What is a belief that events have personal meaning? (I was meant to see this)

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Delusions of Reference

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What are perception like experiences that occur w/o an external stimulus ?

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Hallucinations

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20
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What is the most common hallucination in schizophrenia ?

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Auditory

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21
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Positive or negative: An absence or insufficiency of normal behavior?

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Negative (removal)

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22
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What is an inability to initiate and persist in activities?

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Avolition (or apathy)

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23
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What is a poverty of speech?

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Alogia

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What is very little expressed emotion?

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Affective flattening

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25
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What is a lack of pleasure or indifference to activities ?

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Anhedonia

26
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What is a limited interest in social activities?

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Asocial

27
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Are disorganized symptoms in just speech?

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No also behaviors

28
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What is a disorganized speech disorder that is irrelevant or barely relevant responses?

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Tangentiality

29
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What is a disorganized speech disorder that has conversation taken in unrelated directions, ABRUPTLY CHANGING DIRECTION

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Loose associations

30
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Do schizophrenics exhibit normal behavior?

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No; pigeon collection or CVS masturbation

31
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What is a motor dysfunction that ranges from wild agitation to complete immobility?

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Catatonia

32
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What is innapropriate affect?

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Wrong situational emotion; laughing at a funeral

33
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What is the lifelong population presence of schizophrenia?

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1%

34
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Premorbid is what stage of life? What are developmental issues of schizo in premorbid?

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Childhood and adolescence; Attentional and social problem

35
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What is prodromal? What are the associated behaviors?

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1-2 years before diagnosis; Psychotic like behavior and anhedonia

36
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What is the peak onset of schizo in men? Female?

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Males: mid-20s
Female: Late-20s

37
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Do schizo patients relapse?

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Yes

38
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Is there a genetic influence in schizo?

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Yes

39
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What are mechanisms that contribute to underlying problems causing symptoms

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Endophenotypes

40
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What is different about eye movement in schizo patients?

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They do not have eye movements; SACCADICEGE eye movements

41
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Is meth a dopamine agonist or antagonist?

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Agonist

42
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Do agonists increase or decrease dopamine?

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Increase (they mimic)

43
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What dopamine agonist is used to treat parkinsons?

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L-Dopa

44
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Are neuroleptics agonists or antagonists?

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Antagonist

45
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Parkinsons is a lack/oversuffiency of dopamine?

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Lack

46
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Neuroleptics notoriously do not help to cure what symptoms

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Negatives

47
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What is the timing issue of neuroleptics?

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Dopamine blocks quickly, but it can take weeks to do better

48
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Schizo patients tend to have what 2 changed to brain structure?

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  1. Enlarged ventricle
  2. Hypofrontality (less active frontal cortex)
49
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A less active frontal cortex causes problems in

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working memory and attention

50
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What are the 3 environmental influences of schizo?

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  1. Perinatal/prenatal birth comp.
  2. Marijuana
  3. City Life
51
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What is the #1 treatment of schizophrenia? what percentage is helped?

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Neuroleptics; 60-70%

52
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What are the side effects of neuroleptics?

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Grogginess, blurred vision, cottonmouth, weight gain, MOTOR DIFFICULTIES RELATED TO PARKINSONS

53
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What did Gottesman (1991) conclude about schizophrenia?

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Schizophrenia risk increases as genetic linkage increases

54
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What is the most involved NT in having schizophrenia?

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Dopamine

55
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According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in her offspring

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Schizophrenogenic mother

56
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If an individual has schizophrenia and lives in a family with high expressed emotion, they are ? times (less/more) likely to relapse than if they lived in a family with low expressed emotion

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3.7X; More

57
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More serious side effects of neuroleptics are called

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extrapyramidal

58
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What is involuntary movements of the tongue, face, mouth, or jaw and can include protrusions of the tongue, puffing of the cheeks, puckering of the mouth, and chewing movements EXTRAPYRIMIDAL

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Tardive dyskinesia

59
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True or False: Schizo patients take their medicine on time

A

False; very untrusting

60
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Doctor-patient relationships, cost of medicine, stigma are all a part of

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Noncompliance of medicine

61
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What treatment is a helpful addition to drugs in treating schizo?

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Psychosocial influences (CBT, family therapy, etc.)

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