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A Psychotic Disorder characterized by Delusions, Hallucinations, and Disturbances in Thought, Perception, and Behavior

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Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia is a major mental disorder (Psychotic Disorder) characterized by 2 distinct symptoms

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  1. Delusions
  2. Hallucinations
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Schizophrenia is usually diagnosed in late ______ or early ______

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Dxd in Late Adolescence
or Early Adulthood

The younger the person will be diagnosed with Schizophrenia, the greater the prognosis is

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Two Categories of Symptom of Schizophrenia

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Positive Symptoms
Negative Symptoms

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Devastatingly, Schizophrenia is characterized by Deterioration of what?

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Deterioration of a Person and/or their Personality

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Most common sensory Hallucinations are? (There is most common and 2nd most common)

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1st - Auditory
2nd - Visual

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Schizophrenia is rare in _____

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Rare in Childhood

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A category of Schizophrenic Symptoms that are caused by TOO LITTLE DOPAMINE in Mesocortical Tract

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Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Give 3 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Negative Symptoms (1-3; there are 12 in total)

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  1. Alogia
  2. Anergia
  3. Asocial Behavior
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Give 4 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Negative Symptoms (4-7; there are 12 in total)

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  1. Attention Deficits
  2. Avolition
  3. Blunted Effect
  4. Communication Difficulties
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Major Neurotransmitter in Schizophrenia

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Dopamine

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Major Neurotransmitter in Depression

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Serotonin

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Inhibitors that target both Dopamine and Serotonin

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CLOZAPINE (Clozaril)

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A category of Schizophrenic Symptoms that are caused by EXCESSIVE DOPAMINE in Mesolimbic Tract

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Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Give 4 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Positive Symptoms (1-4; there are 12 total)

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  1. Abnormal Thoughts
  2. Agitation
  3. Bizarre Behavior
  4. Delusions
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Give 4 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Positive Symptoms (5-8; there are 12 total)

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  1. Excitement
  2. Feelings of Persecution
  3. Grandiosity
  4. Hallucinations
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Give 4 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Positive Symptoms (9-12; there are 12 total)

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  1. Hostility
  2. Illusions
  3. Insomnia
  4. Suspiciousness
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Three Overlapping Phases of Schizophrenia (OVERLAPPING - phases may switch from phase to phase

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  1. Acute Phase
  2. Stabilizing Phase
  3. Stable Phase

NOTE: ** Most patient ALTERNATE between Acute and Stable Phases commonly**

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Give 5 Schizophrenic Symptoms that are categorized as Negative Symptoms (8-12; there are 12 in total)

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  1. Difficulty with Abstractions
  2. Passive Social Withdrawal
  3. Poor grooming & Hygiene
  4. Poor Rapport
  5. Poverty of Speech
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Acute Phase of Schizophrenia requires what two Interventions?

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Admission & Administering of Prescribed Medications

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Maximum stay in the Hospital is how many days ( For Acute Cases )

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2 weeks (14 days)

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Chronic cases of mental disorders are transferred/referred to a more higher _____

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Facility;
e.g. Putotan

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Soft Symptoms/Signs of Schizophrenia (3 identified)

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  1. Flat affect
  2. Lack of Volition
  3. Social Withdrawal or Discomfort
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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Fragmented or poorly related thoughts and ideas

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Associative Looseness

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Fixed false beliefs that has no basis in reality

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Delusions

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In dealing with Delusions, the nurse must NOT _____ with the client

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Avoid Arguing;
To prevent losing client’s trust

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Imitation in the speech and way of communicating of another person whom the client is observing

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Echolalia

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Imitation in the movements and gestures of another person whom the client is observing

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Echopraxia

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Continuous flow of verbalization in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another

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Flight of Ideas

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms
> Persistent adherence to a single idea or topic l, verbal repetition of a sentence, word, or phrase resisting attempts to change the topic

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Perseveration

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Tendency to speak very little or to convey little substance of meaning (poverty of content in speech)

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Alogia

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Feeling no joy or pleasure from life or any activities or relationship

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Anhedonia

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Feeling of indifference toward people, activities and events

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Apathy

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Restricted range or emotional feeling, tone or mood

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Blunted Effect

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Positive or Hard Symptoms Symptoms
> Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event or situation

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Ambivalence

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Psychologically induced immobility occasionally marked by periods of agitation or excitement, the client seems motionless as if in a trance

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> absence of any facial expressions that would indicate emotions or mood

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Flat Affect

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DSM-IV TR Diagnostic Criteria

Negative or Soft Symptoms Symptoms
> Absence of will, ambition, or drive to take action or accomplish tasks

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Lack of Volition

39
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______ can control the positive symptom but frequently the _____ Symptoms persist after _____ Positive Symptoms have abated

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Medications;
Negative;
Positive

40
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These present a major barrier to recovery and improved functioning in the client’s daily life

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Persistence of Negative Symptoms

41
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Symptoms of Schizophrenia does not _____ but can be _____

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Does not Disappear but can be Minimized/Managed/Reduces

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Types of Schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR)

According to Client’s Predominant Symptoms
> Characterized by persecutory (feeling victimized or spied on) or Grandiose Delusions, Hallucinations, and Occasionally excessive religiosity (Delusional Religious Focus) or hostile and aggressive behavior

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Paranoid Type of Schizophrenia

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If patient is Paranoid, there is risk for ______

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Aggression/Being Hostile

44
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Types of Schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR)

According to Client’s Predominant Symptoms
> Characterized by grossly inappropriate or flat affect, incoherence, loose associations, and extremely disorganized behavior

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Disorganized Type of Schizophrenia

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Types of Schizophrenia (DSM-IV-TR)

According to Client’s Predominant Symptoms
> Characterized by marked psychomotor disturbance, either motionless or excessive motor activity

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Catatonic Type of Schizophrenia

46
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Command Hallucinations are/can be dangerous in what Mental Disorder?

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Psychotic Depression

47
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The most common type of Hallucination; involve hearing sounds most often voices talking to or about the client

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Auditory Hallucination

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If severe Hallucination; exhibiting command hallucinations (verbalizations) what treatment is indicated

49
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A type of Hallucination involving voices that are demanding the client to take action often to harm self or others and are considered dangerous

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Command Hallucinations

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A type of Hallucination that involve seeing images that do not exist at all such as lights, or dead person; or distortions such as seeing a frightening monster instead of the nurse.

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Visual Hallucinations

51
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Three Guiding Points in Managing Hallucinations

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  1. Reorient
  2. Redirect
  3. Presenting Reality
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A Type of Hallucinations that involve sensation such as electricity running through the body or bugs or crawling on the skin

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Tactile Hallucinations

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A type of Hallucinations that involve the clients reporting that they feel bodily function that are usually undetectable

e.g.
Sensation of urine forming or impulses being transmitted through the brain

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Cenesthetic Hallucinations

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A type of Hallucinations that occur when the client is motionless but reports the sensation of bodily movement

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Kinesthetic Hallucinations

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Three Key Characteristics of Schizophrenia

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  1. Disordered Thinking
  2. Delusions
  3. Hallucinations
56
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The younger of the age of the patient diagnosed with Schizophrenia, the poorer the ______

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Poor Prognosis

57
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If Gradual onset of Schizophrenia, there is ____ Prognosis;
______ Immediate & Long-term Course than those of an _____ and _____ Onset

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Poor Prognosis;
Poorer Immediate & Long-term Course than those of an Acute and Sudden Onset

58
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What is the interval of Relapses preferred for an effective management of Schizophrenia

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Longer intervals between Relapses

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IMMEDIATE COURSE

In years immediately after the onset of Psychotic Symptoms, Two (2) Clinical Patterns Emerge:

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  1. The client experiences Psychosis never fully recovers, although symptoms may shift in severity over time
  2. The client experiences Episodes of Psychotic Symptoms that Alternate with Episodes of Relatively Complete Recovery from the Psychosis
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The intensity of Psychosis tends to diminish with age. Many clients with longer duration of impairment regain some degree of social and occupational functioning;
Over time, the disease becomes less disruptive to the person’s life and easier to manage but rarely can the client overcome the effects if many years of dysfunction.

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Long-term Course

61
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Other disorders that are related to BUT Distinguished from Schizophrenia in terms of Presenting Symptoms and the Duration or Magnitude of Improvement

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Related Disorders of Schizophrenia

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Related Disorders of Schizophrenia

DSM - IV - TR Categories
> The client exhibits the symptoms of Schizophrenia but for less than 6 Months necessary to meet the Diagnostic Criteria of Schizophrenia; Social or Occupational Functioning may or may not be impaired

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Schizophreniform Disorder

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Related Disorders of Schizophrenia

DSM - IV - TR Categories
> The clients exhibits the symptoms of Psychosis and at the same time all the features of a mood disorder, either Depression or Mania

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Related Disorders of Schizophrenia

DSM - IV - TR Categories
> The client has one or more non-bizarre delusions that is the focus of the delusion is believable; Psychosocial functioning is not markedly impaired and behavior is not obviously odd or bizarre

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Delusional Disorder

NOTE: These patients don’t necessarily need Admission; they can still socialize, but once they talk characterizing delusions, they might need to be assessed;
* r/t Grandiosity *

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Delusions can be treated mainly with what intervention

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Medications Prescribed

66
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Related Disorders of Schizophrenia

DSM - IV - TR Categories
> The client experiences the sudden onset of at least one Psychotic Symptoms, such as Delusions, Hallucinations, or Disorganized Speech or Behavior which last from 1 Day to 1 Month;
The episode may or may not have an identifiable stressor or may follow childbirth (Post-partum Psychosis)

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

NOTE: may have prescribed medications for both Psychosis and Depression

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A type of sensory hallucination that Involves scent or odors; they may be a specific scent such as urine or feces, or a more general scent such as rotten or rancid odor

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Olfactory Hallucinations

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A type of Hallucination involves a taste lingering in the mouth or the sense that foods taste like something else. The taste may be metallic or bitter or may be represented as a specific taste

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Gustatory Hallucination

69
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Term that Refers to Waxy Flexibility

70
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Catatonic Type of Schizophrenia that can be indicated by Motor Immobility that can be manifested by ____ or _____

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  1. Catalepsy
  2. Stupor
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Catatonic Type of Schizophrenia that can be indicated by ______ Motor Activity that is apparently _____ and is not influenced by _____ Stimuli

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Excessive Motor Activity that is apparently Purposeless and is not influenced by External Stimuli

72
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A Disorder wherein two people share similar Delusion

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Shared Psychotic Disorder

73
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The person with this diagnosis develops these delusions in the context of a close relationship with someone who has psychotic delusions

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Shared Psychotic Disorder

74
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Are Personality Disorders and not Psychotic Disorders (should not be confused with schizophrenia even though the names sound similar)

**Personality Disorders*

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Schizotypal Personality & Schizoid Personality

75
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Identified psychological and social causes of Schizophrenia according to therapists

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Dysfunctional Parenting and Family Dynamics

76
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Refers to Pathophysiology of Psychological Conditions in Psychiatric Nursing

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Psychodynamics

77
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Treatment involving the deep brain for treating Depression

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Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)

78
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A biologic factor that focuses in immediate families to examine whether schizophrenia is genetically transmitted or inherited; Few have focused on distant relatives

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Genetic Factors

79
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Refers to the structure and function of the Brain

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Neurochemical Factors

80
Q

Refers to the Body’s Response to exposure to a virus

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Immunovirology

81
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Give the tree identified genetic factors under Biological Theories

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  1. Neuroanatomic
  2. Neurochemical Factors
  3. Immunovirology
82
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Clozapine (an Atypical Antipsychotic Drug) precaution regarding WBC Count

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Agranulocytosis

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