Schitofrania Flashcards
A pschotic disorder has what three things?
strange preceptions, unusual emotions and motor abnormalities
Schizophrena is
a psycotic disorder/ pshchosis
What is psychosis?
when individuals lose contact with reality
What are two examples of psychosis?
delusions, hallucinations
How many people with pscychoss commit suicide?
1/4
what is the difference in men and women for Sz?
age of onset?
Sz is more requent for who?
lower SES
low SES is associated with?
dowward drift theory
symtoms of Sz are gruped into what groups?
Positive, negative, psychomotor
Positive ymptoms:
excess thoughts, emotions, bizarre additions and behaviors
negative symtoms
defiecets of emotions and thoughts
psychomotor symptoms
unusual movements or gestures
Delusitons are
ideas believed full heartadly but have no basis on facts
Wht is the most common form of dulusion?
persecution
Dulusion of persecution is
being plotted against or being attacked
dulusion of reference is
attaching special meaning to actions or objects
Dulusion of graendur?
speccially empowered
symptoms of positive symtoms is what five ones?
dulusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened perceptions and inappropriate affect
What is disorganized thinking?
4 things
words that are made up
repeating words
rymes,
loose association
What are hallucinations
sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of external stimuli
heightened perceptions are
senses that are flooded by sights and sounds
What are the four negative syptoms?
poverty of speech
blunted and flat affect
loss of violation-no energy
special withdrawl
What are the three psychomotor symtoms
odd gestures/ akward movements
repeated grimance
What are the three treatments for Sz?
antipsychotic drugs
psychotherapy as an add on
community approach
What was the first antipsyctoic drug?
thorazine
Who devoloped the frst psychotic drug and why?
Labrit to combat allergies