PSY2003 W1 Schizophrenia 2 - L Flashcards
What is the neuropathology obsevred in schizophrenia?
There’s a large loss in gray matter in different regions of the schizophrenia brain.
What are some cogntiive aspects of schizophrenia?
Cognitive biases, attentinal biases, reasongin biases, interpretational biases and attribultional biases
What are some social aspects of schizophrenia?
Double bind and paradoxical communication, Communication deviance and expressed emotions
What are some psychological therapies that might work?
Social skills training, CBT reattribution therapy, Personal therapy, Cognitive remediation training, Family interventions and Community Care
What is a specific genetic factor for schizophrenia?
Copy Number Variants (CNVs)
What is Copy Number Variants (CNVs)?
Copy Number variants: particular part of the chromosome that is deleted (deletion) or duplicatde (duplication)
What is CNV associated with?
Associate with lots of different aspects of psychiatry (autism and schizophrenia) If you have a CNV you might not have any symptoms, but you might also have the criteria of certain disorders.
What region is of interest for CBV?
16p11.2 with genes of interest, associated with brain development, you can have CNV of this region
How does CNVs lead to brain differences (dopamine)?
NO known but there are some geens related to dopamine within the CNV region
What is the differences between a healthy control subject and a schizophrenic patient brain?
Smaller cortex, smaller hippocampus, temporal lobe degeneration, large ventricles, frontal cortex
What did Thompson et al. 2001 study
Very early onset (12Y), longitudinal MRI, watch grey matter over time, compare with controls.
What is obsevred in schizophrenic patients ?
Severe loss is observed (red and pink, up to 5% annually) in parietal motor and temporal cortices.
What also happens in normal adolecent?
A ‘normal’ brain will pruned, so you will loss gray matter
What is the main difference between both gray matter losses ?
However, in people with schizophrenia there is more loss of grey matter, in different areas.
What does this gray matter loss say about symptoms?
It might be easier to link this general neuropathology to underlying, basic cognitive symptoms than hallucinations or delusions.