Schizophrenia

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4 Classifications of Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia Paranoid Type
Schizophrenia Disorganized Type
Schizophrenia Catatonic Type
Schizophrenia Undifferentiated Type

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Stringing together of unrelated topics with a vague connection

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Loose Associations

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Refers to motor anomalies

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Catatonic

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Motor immobility manifested by

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Catalepsy (waxy flexibility) and Stypsor

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Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event, or situation

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Ambivalence

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Fixed false beliefs that has no basis of reality

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Delusions

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Types of Delusions

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Somatic Delusions
Grandiose Delusions
Religion Delusions
Nihilistic Delusions
Delusion of Reference
Paranoid Delusions

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A patient after medical tests confirm of negative result still insist she has a cancer in her stomach

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Somatic Delusions

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I am Napoleon Bonafarte

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Grandiose Delusions

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A woman attempts to kill all her children because the devil wants her to do it.

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Religion Delusions

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“I am dead.”

“If you are dead how can you talk?”

“I don’t know, but I am dead.”

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Nihilistic Delusions

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“The TV is talking about me, the guest are laughing at me.”

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Delusion of Reference

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“They all think I am gay.”

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Paranoid Delusions

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Fragmented or poorly related thoughts

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Associative Looseness

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Imitation of the movements and gestures of another person whom the patient is observing.

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Echopraxia

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Continuous flow of verbalization in which a person may jump rapidly from one topic to another

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Flight of Ideas

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False sensory perceptions or perceptual experience that do not exist in reality

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Hallucinations

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False impression that external events have special meaning for the person

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Ideas of Reference

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Tendency to speak very little or to convey little substance of meaning (e.g., poverty of speech)

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Alogia

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Feeling no joy or pleasure from life or any activities or relationship

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Anhedonia

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Feelings of indifference toward people, activities, and events

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Apathy

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Restricted range of emotional feeling, tone, or mood

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Blunted Effect

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Absence of any facial expression that would indicate emotions or mood

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Flat Affect

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Absence of will, ambition or drive to take action or accomplish task

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Lack of Volition

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Where does the pathology of schizophrenia occurs, usually with a positive sign such as psychosis

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Temporal Lobe

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Where does the pathology of schizophrenia occurs, usually with a negative sign such as lack of volition, motivation, or anhedonia

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Frontal Lobe

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Two neurotransmitters that considered the leading factors affecting schizophrenia

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Dopamine and Serotonin

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Excessive dopaminergic activity in cortical area

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Dopamine Hypothesis

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A neurotransmitter located primarily in the brain stem, involved in the complex movement, motivation, cognition, and regulation of emotional responses

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Dopamine

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Antipsychotic medications that are prescribed for efficacy in decreasing psychotic symptoms

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Neuroleptics

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Reversible movement disorders induced by neuroleptic medications

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Extrapyramidal Side Effects

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Characterized by spasm in discrete muscle group such as neck muscle (torticollis) and eye muscle (oculogyric crisis).

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Dystonic Reactions

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Treatment for Dystonic Reactions

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Diphengydramine (Benadryl)

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Shuffling gait, mask-like faces, akinesia

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Pseudoparkinsonism

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Slowness and difficult initiating movement

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Akinesia

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Restless movement, pacing, inability to remain still

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Akathesia

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Ideas that are related to one another based on sound or rhyming rather than meaning

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Clang Association

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Words invented by the client

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Neologism

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Stereotyped repetition of words or phrases that may or may not have meaning to the listener

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Verbigeration

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Use of words or phrases that are flowery, excessive, pompous

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Stilted Language

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Persistent adherence to a single idea or topic and verbal repetition of a word, sentence, phrase even when the person attempts to change the topic

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Perseveration

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A combination of jumbled words and phrases that are disconnected incoherent and made no sense to the listener

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Word Salad

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Examples of Conventional Antipsychotic Drugs

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Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) Haloperidol (Haldol) Trifluoperazine (Stelazine)

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Examples of Atypical Antipsychotic Drugs

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Clozapine (Clozaril) Disperidone (Disperdal)

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Mostly inhibitory; involved in the control of food intake, sleep and wakefulness, temperature regulation, pain control, sexual behavior, and regulation of motions

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Serotonin

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A disordered mental state of extreme excitement, hyperactivity, euphoria, and hyperverbal behavior

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Mania