Schizophrenia Flashcards
What is Schizophrenia?
A severe disorder in which the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behaviour, hallucinations, and inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality. Speech disturbances, delusions, hallucinations, low attention span, flat affect (emotions disorganised),
What is meant by psychotic?
It refers to an individuals inability to separate what is real and what is fantasy.
What are delusions?
False beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness.
What is delusions of persecution?
In which people believe that others are trying to hurt them in some way.
What is delusions of reference?
In which people believe that other people, television and book characters, are specifically talking to them.
What is delusions of influence?
In which people believe that they are being controlled by external forces, such as devils, and aliens.
What is delusions of grandeur?
In which people are convinced that they are powerful people who can save the world or have a special mission.
What are hallucinations?
False sensory perception, such as hearing voices that do not really exist.
What is the flat affect?
A lack of emotional responsiveness.
What is catatonia?
Disturbed behaviour ranging from statue-like immobility to bursts of energetic, frantic movement and talking.
What is positive symptoms?
Symptoms of schizophrenia that are excesses of behaviour or occur in addition to normal behaviour ; hallucinations. delusions, and distorted thinking. Associated with overactivity of dopamine areas of the brain
What is negative symptoms?
Symptoms of schizophrenia that are less than normal behaviour, or an absence of normal behaviour; poor attention, flat affect, and poor speech production. Associated with lower dopamine activity
What is the stress-vulnerability model?
An explanation of disorder that assumes a biological sensitivity, or vulnerability (genetic markers) , to a certain disorder will result in the development of that disorder unless under the right conditions of environmental or emotional stress.
