Schizophrenia (15.4) Flashcards
Schizophrenia
A brain disease that causes the person to experience significant breaks from reality a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions and problems with attention and memory
Prodromal phase of schizophrenia
People may become easily confused and have difficulty organizing thei thoughts they may lose interest and begin to withdraw from friends and family and they may lose their normal motivations withdraw from life and spend increasing amounts of time alone often deeply engrossed in their own thoughts
Active phase of schizophrenia
People typically experience delusional thoughts hallucinations or disorganized patterns of thoughts emotions and behavior
Residual phase of schizophrenia
In which people predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened considerably and they may simply be withdrawn have trouble concentrating and generally lack motivation
Positive symptoms
Refer to the presence of maladaptive behaviors such as confused thinking and inappropriate emotional reactions
Negative symptoms
Involve the absence of adaptive behavior such as absent or flat emotional reactions lack of interacting with others in social setting and a lack of motivation
Hallucinations
Alterations in perception such that a person hears, sees smells feels, or tastes something that does not actually except in that persons own mind
Delusions
Beliefs that are not based on well integrated with reality
Disorganized behavior
The considerable effect difficulty people with schizophrenia may have completing the task of everyday life
Paranoid schizophrenia
Symptoms include delusional disbeliefs that one is being followed, watched or persecuted and may also include delusional of grandeur or the belief that one has some secret , insight or power or some other characteristic that makes one particularly special
Disorganized schizophrenia
Symptoms include thoughts speech, behaviors and emotions that are poorly integrated and incoherent.
People with disorganized schizophrenia may also show inappropriate, unpredictable mannerisms
Catatonic schizophrenia
Symptoms include episodes in which a person remains mute and immobile - sometimes in bizarre positions for extended periods
Individuals may also exhibit repetitive, purposeless movements
