KEY WORDS SCHIZOPHRENIA

Question 1

Define positive symptoms?

Answer 1

• Additions or distortions to normal functioning.

Question 2

Define negative symptoms?

Answer 2

Absences or reductions in normal functioning.

Question 3

Define early-onset?

Answer 3

• When a disorder starts at a significantly younger age than average.

Schizophrenia usually starts at early adulthood.

Question 4

Define virtual reality?

Answer 4

• A computer generated simulation.
• Which requires special goggles to interact with a simulated enviroment.

Question 5

Define interpersonal sensitivity?

Answer 5

• A tendency to focus on feelings of personal inadquacy, inferority and a feeling of discomfort during interperonal interactions.

Question 6

Define state anxiety?

Answer 6

• An acute form of anxiety.
• Experienced in a particular and temporary situation.

Question 7

Define paranoia

Answer 7

• Excessive mistrust or suspicion of people.

Question 8

Define Brief Symptom Invetory?

Answer 8

• A 53 item self-report measure.
• Designed to assess 9 symptom dimentions (HAD)
• Over the last 7 days.

Question 9

Define concordance?

Answer 9

• The degree to which 2 individuals (usually relatives) share same traits (behaviour/ disorders)

Question 10

Define heritability?

Answer 10

• Refers to how much of the variation in a trait (like intelligence or personality) within a population is due to genetic differences.

Question 12

Define drug trial

Answer 12

• Experiments used to test the safety and effectiveness of a new medication .

Question 13

Define Post-morterm studies?

Answer 13

• Research done on cadavers in order to study and understand the brain and mental illnesses.

Question 14

Define Atypical anti-psychotics?

Answer 14

• Second-generation drugs
• that block serotonin and dopamine receptors
• used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• that have fewer severe side effects than older drugs.

risperidone, olanzapine, clozapine.

Question 15

Define Typical anti-psychotics?

Answer 15

• First-generation drugs
• that primarily block dopanine receptors.
• to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
• however cause strong movement-related side effects.

Chlorpromazine/ Haloperidol.

Question 16

Define randomised control trial (RCT)

Answer 16

• A scientific study where participants are randomly put into different groups to test a treatment fairly,
• by comparing it to a placebo or another treatment.

Question 17

Define Electro-Convulsive Therapy?

Answer 17

• A medical treatment
• in which small electrical currents are passed through the brain
• for no longer than a second to induce a brief seizure.

It is primarily used to treat severe MH conditions such as treatment resistant depression or bipolar.