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Delusions

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False beliefs held in spit of contrary evidence

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Paralytic dementia

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Was actually syphillis

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Positive symptoms

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Abnormal behaviours that are gained eg. hallucinations

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Negative symptoms

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Loss of normal function eg. depression

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Cognitive impairment

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Changes in memory, attention, social perception

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Concordance rate

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Probability of a pair of individuals having the same genetics given that one has them

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Concordance rate for schizophrenia in identical twins

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50%

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Other possible causes of schizophrenia

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Lower birth weight, more physiological distress and more sensitive behaviour

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People with schizophrenia often display _____ with smooth movement of the eyes and ______ motor coordination

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difficulty impaired

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Stressors that could cause schizophrenia

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-Transition from childhood to adulthood
-Prenatal stress, maternal illnesses
-City living

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Brain abnormalities in patient with schizophrenia

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-Enlarged lateral cerebral ventricles
-Cortical abnormalities such as:
>Structure and function of the corpus callosum
>Accelerated cortical thinning

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Hypofrontality hypothesis

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Frontal lobes are underachieve in people with schizophrenia

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Lobotomy

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The surgical separation of the frontal lobes from the rest of the brain

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Chlorpromazine

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An antipsychotic that reduced positive symptoms of schizophrenia and lead to dopamine hypothesis

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Dopamine hypothesis

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Schizophrenia is caused by an excess of either dopamine release or dopamine receptors

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Drawbacks to dopamine hypothesis

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Drugs block dopamine receptors faster than symptoms are reduced and some effective treatments increase dopamine levels.

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First generation (typical) antipsychotics

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Block postsynaptic dopamine receptors (D2)

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Second generation (atypical) antipsychotics

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Lower affinity for dopamine receptors, their highest affinity is for another transmitter receptor

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Clozapine

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Blocks serotonin receptors

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Dyskinesia side effects

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Initial, maladaptive motor symptoms, disappear when the dose is reduced

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Tardive dyskinesia side effects

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Occurs after longtime use of the drug; repetitive, involuntary movements that are irreversible

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Supersensitivity psychosis

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An increase in positive symptoms of schizophrenia upon discontinuation of an antipsychotic drug

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Glutamate hypothesis

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Schizophrenia is caused by an under activation of glutamate receptors

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Characteristics of depression

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-Unhappy mood
-Loss of interests
-Changes in appetite and sleep
-Difficulty in concentration
-Restless agitation
-Pessimism and thoughts of death

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Brain changes with depression
Increased activation in frontal lobes during cognitive tasks and amygdala during emotional processing. Decreased blood flow to areas controlling attention. Lastly cortex of right hemisphere is thinner
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Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
When other treatments are not working then a strong electrical current is passed through the brain causing a seizure
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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
More modern than ECT, alters cortical electrical activity, multiple treatments
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Monamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOI)
Raise the levels of monamine at the synapses. Monoamine inactivates norepinephrine dopamine, and serotonin
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Tricyclics
Antidepressant that inhibits the reuptake of monoamines
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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI's)
Blocks the reuptake of serotonin in the brain
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Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Can be as effective as SSRI's and are more effective used together
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How is sleep altered by depression?
Stage 3 sleep is reduced, patients enter REM quickly and have more REM at the start of the night
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Bipolar disorder
Characterized by periods of depression alternating with periods of expansive mood (mania)
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Rapid-cycling
Consists of four or more cycles per year
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Brain changes in bipolar disorder
Similar to schizophrenia, enlarged ventricles and reduced grey matter
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Lithium
An effective treatment for bipolar that increases gray matter in the brain
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Phobic disorders
Intense irrational fears centred on an object, activity or situation
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Panic disorders
Recurrent transient attacks of intense fearfulness
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Persistent, excessive anxiety and worry
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Treatments for anxiety
Benzodiazepines which bind to GABA receptors and enhance the inhibitory action
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Unpleasant memories repeatedly plague the individual including amnesia, short term memory changes, flashbacks
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
An anxiety disorder in which an individual experiences recurrent unwanted thoughts and engages in repetitive behaviours without reason or the ability to stop
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Routine acts become...
Compulsions (behaviours)
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Recurrent thoughts become...
Obsessions (thoughts)
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Learning
The process of acquiring new information
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Memory
The ability to store and retrieve information
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Retrograde amensia
Loss of memories formed before onset of amnesia
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Anterograde amnesia
The inability to form memories after the onset of a disorder
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Hippocampus
Seems to be associated with amnesia
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Sensory register
Information through our senses
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Short term memory
18 seconds, 7 plus or minus 2 items of capacity
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Long term memory
Unlimited duration, capacity and coding is semantic
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Explicit memory
Conscious
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Implicit memory
Unconscious
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Declarative memory
Facts and events ("what" questions)
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Non declarative (procedural) memory
Skills and tasks ("how" questions)
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Episodic memory
Events and experiences (like an episode)
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Semantic memory
Facts and knowledge
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Delayed non-matching-to-sample-task
A test that requires monkeys to declare what they remember by identifying things they have previously NOT seen
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Skill learning
Non declarative memory challenging task learning through repetition. Impaired by damage to basal ganglia
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Priming
Non declarative: A change in stimulus processing due to prior exposure to the stimulus
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Associative learning
The association between two stimuli or between stimulus and a response
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Hippocampus
Important in spatial learning
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Place cells
Active when moving toward a particular location
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Encoding
Sensory information to working memory
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Consolidation
Information may be consolidated into long-term storage
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Retrieval
Stored information is retrieved
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Reconsolidation
The return of a memory trace to stable, long-term storage after recall
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Hebbian synapses
When two neurons are repeatedly activated together their synaptic connection will become stronger. They could act together to store memory traces
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Tetanus
A brief high frequency burst of electrical stimuli is applied to presynaptic neurons
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Long term potentiation (LTP)
A stable and lasting increase in the effectiveness of synapses

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