Schizophrenia Flashcards
What is the prodromal stage of schizophrenia?
Symptoms not obvious, but deterioration has begun; social withdrawal; speak in strange ways; develop strange ideas, express little emotion.
What is the acute phase of schizophrenia?
Severe and well developed positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms.
What occurs during the stabilization stage of schizophrenia?
Positive symptoms decrease.
What characterizes the maintenance stage of schizophrenia?
Symptoms in remission.
What are the risk factors for schizophrenia?
Drugs, prenatal complications, toxins, genetics, brain injury.
What are delusions?
False fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning.
What is concrete thinking?
Literal interpretations of the environment.
What is associative looseness?
Thinking becomes haphazard, illogical, and confused.
What is circumstantiality?
Using excessive detail that distracts from the central idea of a conversation.
What is tangential speech?
Train of thought wanders off into another direction.
What are neologisms?
Made-up words that typically have only meaning to the individual who uses them.
What are ideas of reference?
The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself.
What is a delusion of persecution?
Belief that others are out to get them.
What are delusions of grandeur?
A false belief that one is a famous person or a powerful or important person.
What are somatic delusions?
Belief that the body is changing in an unusual way.
What is erotomania?
Belief that a stranger is in love with them.
What does nihilistic mean?
The belief that one is dead or a calamity is impending.
What is thought broadcasting?
Belief that one’s thoughts can be heard by others.
What is thought insertion?
Belief that thoughts are being inserted into the mind.
What is thought withdrawal?
Belief that thoughts have been removed from the mind.
What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Delusions, hallucinations, catatonia, disorganized thoughts.
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Apathy, social withdrawal, blunted affect, poverty of speech, and catatonia.
What is alogia?
Reduction in verbal communication.
What is avolition?
Lack of motivation.
