PSY2003 W1 Schizophrenia 2 - R Flashcards

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What did Thompson et al. use to study gray matter in schizophrenia?

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Brian mapping algorithms of anatomical profiles

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What did Thompson et al. detect ?

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Aceelerated grey matter loss in very early-onset schizophrenia

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Where was the earliest deficits founds?

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In parietal brain region (visuospatial and associative thinking)

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Where was the next deficit found?

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anteriorly into temporal lobes (sensorimotor and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices and frontal eye fields)

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What did the deficits visible in the brain mapping correlated with?

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with the psychotic symptom severity and reflected the impairments in the disease (neuromotor, auditory, visual search and frontal executive impairments)

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What is the typical onset of schizophrenia

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Late adolescence/early adulthood

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What is a early-onset of schizophrenia like?

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Childhood onset schizophrenia is a sever form of the disorder

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What were the results of gray matter loss for normal adolescents ?

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There was a subtle but significant change detected in normal adolescents.

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What were the results for the schizophrenic patients?

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striking accelerated loss of grey matter in the frontal eye fields and supplementary motor, sensorimotor, parietal and temporal cortices in both brain hemisphere

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