Psychotic disorders Flashcards
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What is a psychotic disorder?
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Term used to characterise many unusual behaviours, although in its strictest sense it usually involves delusions and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events).
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Schizophrenia
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Characterised by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behaviour, and inappropriate emotions.
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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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Delusions and Hallucinations.
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
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- Avolition/apathy (inability to initiate and persist in activities).
- Alogia (relative absence of speech).
- Anhedonia (lack of pleasure), affective flattening.
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Disorganised symptoms of schizophrenia
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- Disorganised speech.
- Inappropriate affect and disorganised behaviour (E.g. laughing or crying at improper times).
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Other psychotic disorders (other than schizophrenia)
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- Schizoaffective disorder
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Delusional disorder
- Brief psychotic disorder
- Attenuated psychosis syndrome
