SCHIZOPHRENIA

Question 1

PRESENCE of inappropriate symptom

Answer 1

Positive Symptoms Increased
Limbic Dopamine Activity

Question 2

ABSENCE of appropriate symptoms

Answer 2

Negative Symptoms
Decreased Frontal Dopamine
Activity

Question 3

Beliefs contrary to reality and firmly held in spite of disconforming evidence

Answer 3

Delusions Positive

Question 4

A person may believe that thoughts that are not his or her own might have been PLACED in his or her mind by an EXTERNAL source

Answer 4

Thought INSERTION

Question 5

A person may believe that his or her thoughts are BROADCASTED or
TRANSMITTED, so that other know what he or she is thinking.

Answer 5

Thought BROADCASTING

Question 6

An exaggerated sense of his or
her own importance, power, knowledge, or identity

Answer 6

Grandiose Delusions

Question 7

Incorporating unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others

Answer 7

Ideas of Reference

Question 8

Attempts to deal with and relieve
anxiety and stress

Answer 8

Motivational View

Question 9

Sees these beliefs as resulting
from a BRAIN DYSFUNCTION that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions

Answer 9

Deficit View

Question 10

Refers to a lack of MOTIVATION and a seeming absence of 11 interest in an or inability to persist in what are usually routine activities

Answer 10

Hallucinations Positive

Question 11

Severe impairments in social
relationships

Answer 11

Asociality Negative

Question 12

A loss of INTEREST in or a reported lessening of the experience of PLEASURE

Answer 12

Anhedonia Negative

Question 13

Refers to a lack of outward
expression of emotion

Answer 13

Affective Flattening Negative

Question 14

Refers to a significant reduction in the amount of SPEECH

Answer 14

Alogia - Negative

Question 15

Refers to the problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that the listener can understand

Answer 15

Disorganized Speech Disorganized Symp.

Question 16

The person may be more
17 successful in communicating with a listener but has difficulty sticking to one topic

Answer 16

Loose Associations or Derailment Disorganized Symp.

Question 17

Going off on a TANGENT instead of answering a specific question

Answer 17

Tangetiality Disorganized Symp.

Question 18

People may go into INEXPLICABLE bouts of agitation, dress in unusual clothes, act in a childlike manner, hoard food, or collect garbage

Answer 18

Disorganized Behavior Disorganized Symp.

Question 19

Abnormal Psychomotor behavior refers to disturbances in movement behavior

Answer 19

Movement Symptoms Disorganized Symp

Question 20

Comprises a mixture of symptoms of Schizophrenia and MOOD Disorders

Answer 20

Schizoaffective Disorder 1 to 6 months

Question 21

Troubled by persistent delusions
of PERSECUTION or by delusional JEALOUSY

Answer 21

Delusional Disorder

Question 22

Refers to a lack of MOTIVATION and a seeming absence of interest in an or inability to persist in what are usually routine activities

Answer 22

Avolition Negative

Question 23

Brought by extreme stress, such a bereavement and only lasts from 1 day to 1 month

Answer 23

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Question 24

Less severe presentation of elusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech in past month occurring at least ONCE a week

Answer 24

Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome

Question 25

Also known as AntipsychoticDrugs

Answer 25

Neuroleptics