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What are the 3 Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • Disorganised Thinking
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What are 4 Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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  • Speech Poverty
  • Lack of Emotion (Flat Affect)
  • Avolition
  • Apathy (Lack of Emotion)
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What is meant by Inter Rated Reliability in Diagnosis

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When doctors make the same diagnosis when independently assessing a patient

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What did the Copeland Study find

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  • 69% US Psychiatrists gave Schizophrenia Diagnosis
  • 2% UK Psychiatrists gave Schizophrenia Diagnosis
  • Shows lack of reliability
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Define Comorbidity

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One disorder coexists with another

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Define Overlapping Symptoms

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Symptoms of Schizophrenia can be used to diagnose other disorders

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Explain Dopamine Hypothesis

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  • Elevated levels of Dopamine in Key Pathways
  • Increased impulses being transmitted
  • Triggering positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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Explain the Randrup & Munkvad Study

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  • Gave a sample of Ampthetamies to Rats
  • Their dopamine levels increased and caused them to have attention issues
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What are the 3 Neural Correlates of Schizophrenia

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  • Enlarged Ventricles
  • Hypofrontality
  • Hippocampul - Amygdala Region
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What are the 3 family explanations for Schizophrenia

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  • Schizophrenogenic Mother
  • Double Bind Hypothesis
  • High Expressed Emotions
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What is a Schizophrenogenic Mother

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Someone who is insensitive, controlling and overprotective

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Define Double Bind Hypothesis

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Giving conflicting messages towards a child causing them to have a poor construction of reality

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What are the 3 factors that are involved in Dysfunctional Though Processing

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  • Dysfunction in the Central Monitoring System
  • Dysfunction in the Supervisory Attention System
  • Egocentric Bias
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Define Typical Drugs

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  • Reduces levels of Dopamine in the brain
  • Binds to D2 receptor sites, lowering Dopamine Transmission
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Define Atypical Drugs

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  • Modulates levels of Dopamine and Serotonin in key pathways
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3 Topic in Gender Bias

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  • Biased Research
  • Unreported Facts
  • Under diagnosis
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What does a faulty C4 gene lead to

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Abnormal Synaptic Pruning

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Outline Gottesmen and Shield

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  • Children with 2 Schz parents (100%) 46%
  • 2nd degree relatives (25%) 5%
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Outline the Joseph Research

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DZ (100%) 7% Concordance
MZ (100%) 40% Concordance

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Outline Enlarged Ventricles

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Often found at the start and is linked to negative symptoms such as speech poverty

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Outline Hypofronatilty

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  • Reduced activity in the frontal lobe
  • Disruption in the cerebral blood flow distribution
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Outline the effect of Atypical Drug is the Mesolimbic Pathway

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  • Sensory pathway is involved with emotions and sensations of pleasure
  • It reduces the Hyperactivity of dopamine, leading to reduction of positive symptoms
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Outline Integrated Psychological Therapy (IBT)

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  • Helps to improve attention
  • Identifies cognitive deficits and fixes them in a non confrontal way
  • Taught to recognise and respond to social cues
  • Done through taking part in engaging group exercises
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Outline the 5 stages in Family Therapy

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  • Trusting Relationships
  • Educate
  • Practical Coping Strategies
  • How to express concerns
  • Early Signs of relapse
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Outline Token Economy

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  • Normal Behaviour that are desired are positively reinforced
  • Plastic Tokens are used as secondary reinforcers that can be exchanged for primary reinforcers
  • Primary Reinforcers must be highly desirable

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