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Schizophrenia Flashcards

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What is the prodromal stage of schizophrenia?

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Symptoms not obvious, but deterioration has begun; social withdrawal; speak in strange ways; develop strange ideas, express little emotion.

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What is the acute phase of schizophrenia?

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Severe and well developed positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms.

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What occurs during the stabilization stage of schizophrenia?

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Positive symptoms decrease.

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What characterizes the maintenance stage of schizophrenia?

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Symptoms in remission.

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What are the risk factors for schizophrenia?

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Drugs, prenatal complications, toxins, genetics, brain injury.

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What are delusions?

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False fixed beliefs that cannot be corrected by reasoning.

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What is concrete thinking?

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Literal interpretations of the environment.

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What is associative looseness?

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Thinking becomes haphazard, illogical, and confused.

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What is circumstantiality?

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Using excessive detail that distracts from the central idea of a conversation.

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What is tangential speech?

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Train of thought wanders off into another direction.

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What are neologisms?

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Made-up words that typically have only meaning to the individual who uses them.

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What are ideas of reference?

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The false impression that outside events have special meaning for oneself.

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What is a delusion of persecution?

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Belief that others are out to get them.

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What are delusions of grandeur?

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A false belief that one is a famous person or a powerful or important person.

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What are somatic delusions?

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Belief that the body is changing in an unusual way.

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What is erotomania?

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Belief that a stranger is in love with them.

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What does nihilistic mean?

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The belief that one is dead or a calamity is impending.

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What is thought broadcasting?

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Belief that one’s thoughts can be heard by others.

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What is thought insertion?

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Belief that thoughts are being inserted into the mind.

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What is thought withdrawal?

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Belief that thoughts have been removed from the mind.

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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

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Delusions, hallucinations, catatonia, disorganized thoughts.

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What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

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Apathy, social withdrawal, blunted affect, poverty of speech, and catatonia.

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What is alogia?

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Reduction in verbal communication.

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What is avolition?

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Lack of motivation.

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What is word salad?

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Jumble of incoherent speech.

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What is echolalia?

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Repeating another’s words.

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What is echopraxia?

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Mimicking the movements of another.

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What is clang association?

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The meaningless rhyming of words, often in a forceful manner.

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What are illusions?

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Misinterpretation of real experiences.

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What is derealization?

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False perception that the environment has changed.

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What is depersonalization?

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Feelings of detachment from one’s mental processes or body.

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What is flat affect?

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A lack of emotional responsiveness.

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What is blunted affect?

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Minimal range of emotional response.

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What is bizarre affect?

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Odd, illogical, inappropriate, or unfounded; includes grimacing.

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What is the working/exploitation phase of the nurse-client relationship?

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Discussing interventions.

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What is one environmental risk to schizophrenia?

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Cannabis, poverty.

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What is anosognosia?

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A patient’s inability to realize that he or she is ill, which is caused by the illness itself.

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What is the residual phase of schizophrenia?

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Decline in psychotic symptoms.

39
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What are the neuro factors of schizophrenia?

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Decrease in gray matter.

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