Neuroscience Week 8: Psychotic Disorders Flashcards
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Title
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Objectives
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Psychotic Disorders description
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Psychiatric disorders with core symptoms of hallucinations and/or delusions (psychosis)
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Psychotic Disorders examples
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- brief psychotic disorder
- Schizophreniform
- Schizophrenia
- Delusional disorder (persecutory, grandiose, erotomanic, jealous, somatic and mixes
- Schizoaffective disorder
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Epidemiology of schizophrenia & psychotic disorders
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Schizophrenia DSM 5
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Psychotic disorders symptom grouping
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Other symptoms reliably associated with schizophrenia
5 listed
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Hallucinations description
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Delusions description
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Disorganization
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The most heritable cluster of symptoms in schizophrenia
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Disorganization
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Disorganization cause
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may literally arise from a deficit in communication between parts of the brain
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Tracts disrupted in schizophrenia
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Disorganization description
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Disorganized thought
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- disorganized concepts & disorganized speech
- impaired abstraction
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Disorganized behavior
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- inappropriate affect
- posturing, catatonia mannerisms
- poor attention