Schizophrenia

Question 1

What’s the definition of Schizophrenia?

Answer 1

A serious mental condition of a type involving a breakdown in the relation between thoughts, emotions and behaviour leading to faulty perception, inappropriate actions and feelings, withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into fantasy and delusion, and a sense of mental fragmentation (Oxford Dictionary, 2024)

Question 2

How many criteria come under criteria A, and how many are needed for Diagnosis?

Answer 2

3/5 Criteria A must be met for diagnosis

Question 3

What is criteria 1?

Answer 3

Delusions

Question 4

What is criteria 2?

Answer 4

Hallucinations

Question 5

What is criteria 3?

Answer 5

Disorganised speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence).

Question 6

What is criteria 4?

Answer 6

Grossly disorganised or catatonic behaviour.

Question 7

What is criteria 5?

Answer 7

Negative symptoms (i.e., diminished emotional expression or avolition).

Question 8

What’s the pneumonic?

Answer 8

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Question 9

What is criteria B?

Answer 9

For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, level of functioning in one or more major areas, such as work, interpersonal relations, or self-care, is markedly below the level achieved prior to onset (or when the onset is in childhood or adolescence, there is failure to achieve expected level of interpersonal, academic or occupational functioning).

Question 10

What is criteria C?

Answer 10

Duration: continuous signs of the disturbance persist for at least 6 months.

Question 11

What is criteria D?

Answer 11

Schizoaffective disorder and depressive or Bipolar disorder with psychotic features have been rules out.

Question 12

What is criteria E?

Answer 12

The disturbance is not attributed table to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition

Question 13

What is criteria F?

Answer 13

If there is a history of autism spectrum disorder or a communication disorder of childhood onset, the additional diagnosis of schizophrenia is made only if prominent delusions or hallucinations, in addition to the other required symptoms of schizophrenia, are also present for at least 1 month (or less if successfully treated).

Question 14

Name a few delusions

Answer 14

Persecutory delusions
Grandiose delusions
Paranoid delusions
Somatic delusions - false beliefs relating to the person’s body (they’re sick, etc)