Mini Lecture #3 - Schizophrenia

Question 1

symptoms that are additional (ex. hallucinations)

Answer 1

positive symptoms

Question 2

symptoms that are reductive (ex. reduced pleasure in life)

Answer 2

negative symptoms

Question 3

age frame when people are typically diagnosed

Answer 3

late teens to early thirties

Question 4

1st neural feature of schizophrenia

Answer 4

disorganized hippocampal formation

Question 5

2nd neural feature of schizophrenia

Answer 5

enlarged ventricles

Question 6

3rd neural feature of schizophrenia

Answer 6

higher rate of gray matter loss

Question 7

antipsychotics that block dopamine signaling, popular in the 1960s

Answer 7

neuroleptics

Question 8

antipsychotics that factor other receptors (serotonin)

Answer 8

atypical antipsychotics

Question 9

claim that psychotic symptoms first emerge when chaotic dopamine transmission leads to a shift in stimuli significance

Answer 9

model of aberrant salience

Question 10

whether a test measures what its supposed to measure (mimic core behavioral symptoms)

Answer 10

face validity

Question 11

ability of a test to measure a future outcome (establish a neurobiological cause)

Answer 11

predictive validity

Question 12

degree to which a test is capable of measuring a concept (chemical + biological)

Answer 12

construct validity

Question 13

behaviors and experiences that indicate mental illness or cognitive impairment

Answer 13

psychopathology