Mod 6 Schizo Flashcards
Psychosis:
the loss of touch with reality, symptoms are hallucinations and delusions
- Dementia praecox was coined by
Kraeplin
Schizophrenia was coined by___ as a ___
Suegen Bleuler in 1911
group basic symptoms of disorganized communications, motivational impairments, mood disturbances and withdrawal from the world
Accessory: delusion/hallucs (positive symptoms today)
schizophrenia affects about
1% of general pop
the main difference between schizophrenia and schizophreniform is
temporal (6 months cutoff)
List 3 Positive symptoms
hallucinations
Delusions
disorganized speech
List 3 negative symp
Anhedonia
Asociality
Avolition
disorganized behaviour
alogia (poverty of speech)
Affective flattening (lack of emotional/facial expression
Delusions can come in the form of (name 3) and are classified as either
persecutive
religious
somatic
referential
Bizarre or non-bizzare
neurological theories on Schizo posit that DA is:
in excess in subcortical regions
deficient in cortical (Frontal lobe #1)
Aberrant salience is___ and might be caused by _____
inappropriate assigning of importance
too much DA in the V3 cortex, making DA neurons fire to innocuous stimuli
many SZ patients have reduced ____ in____a
grey matter
temporal and frontal lobe
sociallly, those with SZ have trouble with ____ of mind and can’t ID other’s emotions easily
Name 3 cognitive bias in SZ patients
jumping to conclusions
bias against disconformity evidence (BADE)
Source monitoring (INT vs EXT)
4 factors that increase SZ risk
city life, childhood trauma, low intelligence, drug abuse
Social defeat theory:
repetitive adverse childhood experiences sensitize the DA systems