Schizophrenia

Question 1

1. What is the age of onset?

Answer 1

the males most common period is 16-25 for females after 30.

Question 2

2. What is attending to voices?

Answer 2

When a person responds to internal voices either verbally or behaviorally

Question 3

3. What are delusions?

Answer 3

a firmly –held idea that the person has despite clear and obvious evidence that is not true.

Question 4

4. Explain the different types of delusions

Answer 4

1. Delusions of Persecution: They are out to get me (poison, kill, read my mind, steal from me)
2. Delusions of Reference: It is a message for me (billboard, other people’s activities, TV)
3. Delusions of Grandeur: belief that one is famous or an important figure – ie Jesus Christ, might also include special powers
4. Delusions of Control: belief that one’s thoughts or actions are being controlled by outside alien forces.

Question 5

5. What is the DISCYS test?

Answer 5

The Dyskinesia Identification System Condensed User Scale - Medical evaluation for Tardive Dyskinesia given at six month intervals.

Question 6

6. What is disorganized speech?

Answer 6

Disjointed speech patterns due to fragmented thinking, inability to concentrate and lack of inhibition. Speech can be illogical and incoherent.

Question 7

7. What are some factors associated with disorganized speech?

Answer 7

1, Loose Associations: racing thoughts often without connection between thoughts

2. Neologisms: made up words or phrases
3. Perseveration: Repetition of words and statements, saying the same thing repeatedly
4. Clang: meaningless use of rhyming words

Question 8

7. What are hallucinations?

Answer 8

Sounds, smells, touches and visual perceptions that exist only in a person’s mind.

Question 9

8. What is the inappropriate affect?

Answer 9

Affect that is incongruent with the patient’s situation or with the content of patient’s ideas or speech

Question 10

9. What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 10

Positive symptoms are highly exaggerated ideas, perceptions, or actions that show the person can’t tell what’s real from what isn’t.
This includes;
hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, inability to concentrate, memory issues, aggressive behavior and hostility. .

Question 11

10. What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 11

Negative symptoms refer to an absence or lack of normal mental function involving thinking, behavior, and perception.
This includes:
blunted affect, limited range of emotion, minimal & monotone speech, difficulty enjoying anything, socially isolated, lacks motivation, self neglect in terms of grooming or hygiene, slow movements.