Psychological Disorders Part 5

Question 1

schizophrenia

Answer 1

a brain disease, that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions, and problems with attention and memory

Question 2

schizophrenia is derived from greek roots meaning what?

Answer 2

“split mind”

Question 3

true or false: Schizophrenia is not a “split personalitY”

Answer 3

true

Question 4

between __% and __% of the population will develop schizophrenia

Answer 4

between .4% and 1%

Question 5

what are the 5 forms of schizophrenia?

Answer 5

1) paranoid schizophrenia
2) disorganized schizophrenia
3) catatonic schizophrenia
4) undifferentiated schizophrenia
5) residual schizophrenia

Question 6

paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 6

symptoms include delusional beliefs that one is being followed, watched, persecuted

Question 7

disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 7

symptoms include thoughts, speech, behaviour and emotion that are poorly integrated and incoherent

Question 8

catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 8

Symptoms include episodes in which a person remains mute and immobile – sometimes in bizarre positions – for extended periods

Question 9

Undifferentiated schizophrenia

Answer 9

This category includes individuals who show a combination of symptoms from more than one type of schizophrenia

Question 10

residual schizophrenia

Answer 10

this category reflects individuals who some symptoms of schizophrenia but are either in transition to a full-blown episode or in remission

Question 11

positive symptoms

Answer 11

the presence of maladaptive behaviours, such as confused and paranoid thinking, and inappropriate emotional reactions

Question 12

hallucinations

Answer 12

alterations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in that persons own mind

Question 13

delusions

Answer 13

beliefs that are not based on reality

Question 14

incoherent speech

Answer 14

“word salad”

Question 15

disordered thinking

Answer 15

a deficit in utilizing “executive functions”, such as attention, rule switching, forming associations or dealing with abstractions

Question 16

true or false: schizophrenics have very high or very low rate of blinking

Answer 16

true

Question 17

negative symptoms

Answer 17

the absence of adaptive behaviour, such as absent or flat emotional reactions, lack of interacting with others in a social setting and lack of motivation

Question 18

4 negative symptoms

Answer 18

1) loss of motivation
2) emotional flatness - unresponsive facial expressions, poor eye contact, diminished emotionally
3) poverty of speech - brief, empty replies in conversation
4) social withdrawal

Question 19

neurodevelopmental hypothesis

Answer 19

the adult manifestation of what we call “schizophrenia” is the outgrowth of disrupted neurological development early in the persons life

Question 20

seasonlity effect

Answer 20

higher schizophrenia rates in people born during the winter months (flu season, thus affecting neuron migration)

Question 21

weak correlations also exist with what 5 factors?

Answer 21

• maternal stress
• environmental toxins
• birth complications
• vitamin D deficiency
• living in a city

Question 22

ventricles are ____ larges in schizophrenics

Answer 22

20-30%

Question 23

antipsychotic drugs

Answer 23

medications used to treat symptoms of psychosis, including delusions, hallucinations and severely disturbed or disorganized thought

Question 24

typical antipsychotics

Answer 24

medications such as thorozine and haladol that blocked dopamine receptors

Question 25

tardive dyskinesia

Answer 25

a movement disorder involving involuntary movement and facial tics

Question 26

atypical antipsychotics

Answer 26

newer antipsychotic drugs, such as clozapine, that target different types of dopamine receptors and have fewer side effects