module 6 L4-6 Flashcards
Enumerate: Components of psychosis
- loss of reality testing and impairment in mental functioning
- severe impairment in mental and social functioning
- severe ego regression
Enumerate: Schizophrenia DSM 5 criteria
- Characteristic symptoms
- Social/occupational dysfunction
- 6 months duration of symptoms
- Exclusion of mood and schizo-affective disorder
- Exclusion of substance abuse and other medical conditions as cause
- Relationship with pervasive developmental disorder
Enumerate: Schizophrenia subtypes
- Paranoid
- Disorganised
- Catatonic
- Undifferentiated
- Residual
Positive symptoms are?
Symptoms reflecting an excess or distortion of normal functions
Enumerate: Positive symptoms
- Hallucinations
- Delusions
- Abnormal thought content and process
- Speech disorder
Negative symptoms are?
Symptoms reflecting a diminution or loss of normal functions
Enumerate: Negative symptoms
The 5 A’s:
- Affective flattening
- Alogia
- Avolution-Apathy
- Anhedonia-asociality
- Attention deficits
Examples of cognitive symptoms
- difficulty focusing and attention
- poor executive function
- working memory problems
Identify:False fixed belief not congruent with age, level of education, or culture not readily corrected by logical reasoning
Delusion
Identify: a perceptual disturbance not involving a stimulus
Hallucination
Identify: misinterpretation of a sensory stimulus
Illusion
Identify: the presence of psychotic symptoms lastng more than one day but less than one month
Brief Psychotic Disorder
Identify: the presence of psychotic symptoms for more than one month but less than 6 months
Shizopreniform disorder
Identify: the presence of active phase symptoms of shizophrenia as well as manic or depressive symptoms that are brief relative to the duration of psychosis
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Schizoaffective disorde
Identify: The presence of delusions as the only symptom for at least one month
Delusional disorder
The preoccupation with one or more delusions or auditory hallucinations, usually delusions of persecution or grandeur
Paranoid-subtype schizophrenia
A marked regression to primitive, disinhibited, and unorganised behaviour e.g. disorganised speech and behaviour
Disorganised-subtype schizophrenia
Shizophrenic subtype manifesting as a marked disturbance in motor function, e.g. stupor, negativism, rigidity, excitement, posturing, echolalia, echopraxia, etc.
Catatonic subtype
Undifferentiated subtype: does not fit the criteria for the other subtypes
Residual subtype: an attenuated form without a complete set of active symptoms
Schneiderian delusions are highly indicative of schizphrenia if present. Enumerate.
- Thought withdrawal
- Thought insertion
- Thought broadcasting
- Made impulses
- Made volitional acts
- Somatic passivity
Type of disorganised speech wherein ideas are presented with loosely apparent or completely inapparent logical connections.
Looseness of association
Lack of observance to the main topic of discourse
Tangentiality
Non-linear pattern of getting to the point
Circumstantiality
Grouping of words based on similar sounds even without any logical connection
Clang association
Provision of a similar answer to different questions
Perseveration
Define the Erotomanic type of delusion
The belief that another, usually important or famous person is in love with you
Define the Grandiose type of delusion
An overinflated sense of worth, power, or knowledge
Define the Jealous type of delusion
Belief that a person’s spouse or sexual partner is unfaithful
Define the Persecutory type of delusion
The belief that one is being mistreated, being spied upon, or the target of harm
Define the Somatic type of delusion
The belief that one has a physical defect or medical problem
Enumerate: Characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia
- Delusions
- Hallucinations
- Disorganised speech
- Grossly abnormal psychomotor behaviour e.g. catatonia
- Negative symptoms
Component of social/occupational dysfunction to be monitored for at least 2 months in schizophrenia
- School performance
- Socialisation
- Self-care
Schneiderian auditory hallucinations
- Voices speaking thoughts out loud
- Voices arguing
- Voices commenting on the subject’s action
Differential diagnoses for schizophrenia
- Autism
- Neurological conditions
- Other medical conditions
- Substance-induced psychosis
A medical condition characterised by a trance or seizure with loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied with muscular rigidity and fixity of posture
Catalepsy
Decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture
Waxy flexibility
A time period wherein symptom criteria are fulfilled
Acute episode
A time period wherein there is improvement after a previous episode and the criteria are only partialy fulfilled
Partial remission
A period wherein no disorder-specific symptoms
Full remission
- Oldest known substance of abuse
ethanol