Schizophrenia Flashcards
What are the 5 key features of schizophrenia?
Hallucinations, delusions (positive symptoms), disorganized thinking (as inferred from speech), grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior (including catatonia), negative symptoms
T or F: Delusions are perceptions, whereas hallucinations are beliefs.
F, Delusions are beliefs, while hallucinations are perceptions
T or F: Patients with delusions cannot be convinced that they are not real even if you presented them with evidence that contradicts them.
T, delusions are fixed and not amenable to change
What is the main difference between schizoid personality disorder and schizophrenia?
There are no delusions and hallucinations in people with schizoid personality disorder.
T or F: Dissociative disorders and schizophrenia have no intact reality.
F, only patients with schizophrenia no longer have an intact reality
T or F: Hallucinations are not under voluntary control, which means you cannot have on/off hallucinations.
T
What is the most common form of hallucination?
Auditory hallucinations
T or F: Positive symptoms include avolition, anhedonia, and asociality.
F, they are negative symptoms. Positive symptoms include hallucinations and delusions
A negative symptom in which there is the inability to initiate and persist in activities. It is also called apathy.
Avolition
A negative symptom in which there is the inability to initiate and persist in activities. It is also called apathy.
Avolition
This refers to symptoms that usually indicate the absence or insufficiency of normal behavior, which include avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and asociality.
Negative symptoms
T or F: Schizophreniform disorder has marked symptoms of both schizophrenia and a major depressive episode or a manic episode.
F, it’s schizoaffective disorder
