Schizophrenia

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Psychosis

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A state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways

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Schizophrenia

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A psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions, and motor abnormalities

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Positive symptoms

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Symptoms that seem to be excesses of or bizarre additions to normal thoughts, emotions, or behaviors

Delusion, hallucination, disorganized speech and behavior

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Delusion

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A strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary

Grandeur, persecution, reference, control

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Formal thought disorder

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A disturbance in the production and organization of thought

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Loose association

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A common thinking disturbance in schizophrenia, characterized by rapid shifts from one topic of conversation to another. Also known as derailment

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Inappropriate affect

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Display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation

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Negative symptoms

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Symptoms that seem to be deficits in normal thoughts, behaviors, and emotions

Avolition, Alogia, ahedonia, flat affect

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Alogia

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A decrease in speech or speech content; also known as poverty of speech

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Catatonia

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A pattern of extreme psychological motor symptoms found in some forms of schizophrenia which may include catatonic stupor, rigidity, or posturing

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Dopamine hypothesis

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The theory that schizophrenia results from excessive activity of dopamine

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs that help correct grossly confused or distorted thinking

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Phenothiazine

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A group of antihistamine drugs that became the first group of effective antipsychotic medication

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Atypical antipsychotic drugs

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A relatively new group of antipsychotic drugs whose biological action is different from that of the traditional antipsychotic drugs

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Schizophrenogenic mother

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A type of mother supposedly cold, domineering, and uninterested in the needs of others who was once thought to cause schizophrenia in her child

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Psychotic Disorders

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Schizotypal, delusional, brief psychotic, schizophreniform, schizophrenia, schizoaffective

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Literal meaning of schizophrenia

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Split mind, signifying a break from reality, not multiple personalities

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DSM-5 criteria for schizophrenia

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Two or more of the following: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior, negative symptoms, disturbance of functioning in one or more major areas

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Hallucinations

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Perceptual disturbance in which something is seen, heard, or otherwise sensed though it is not actually present

Auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, olfactory

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Disorganized symptoms

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Lack of insight, illogical thoughts or speech, pressured speech, derailment, tangentiality, neologisms (made up words), clang, repetition of words or phrase (perseveration), inappropriate affect, object hoarding, catatonia, waxy flexibility

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Schizophrenia stats

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0.3-0.7% worldwide
2.5 million in the US
Slightly lower in females
20% attempt suicide, 5-6% complete

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Development of schizophrenia

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Prodromal stage: 1-2 year period when usual behaviors begin to develop
Onset of severe symptoms in very late teens to early-mid 20s
1-2 years of symptoms prior to diagnosis

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Genetic influences

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Genes are responsible for marking some individuals vulnerable to schizophrenia

Twin studies, adoption studies, family studies, linkage and assoc studies

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Endophenotyping

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The process of finding certain genes that cause or are related to certain behaviors and symptoms of a disorder

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The dopamine hypothesis

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Over active dopaminergic system in those with schizophrenia

Likely, but not sole biochemical explanation

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Abnormalities in brain structure

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Majority show enlarged ventricles

Hypo and hyper frontality, specific deficit in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

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Prenatal and perinatal factors

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Prenatal exposure to influenza, exposure to toxins like marijuana, birth complications

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Treatment for Schizophrenia

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Antipsychotic medications (only work if taken consistently, may side effects like akinesia, tardive dyskinesia, dry mouth, blurred vision), token economies, multidisciplinary care teams, family intervention

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Brief Psychotic Disoder

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Presence of delusion, hallucination, disorganized speech/behavior, catatonic behavior which lasts one day but less than one month

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Delusional Disorder

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Presence of one or more delusions with a duration of one month or longer
Behavior is not obviously odd aside from delusions

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Delusional Disorder Specifiers

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Erotomanic, grandiose type, jealous type, persecutory, somatic, mixed, unspecified, with bizarre content

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Delusional disorder stats

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24-30 of 100,000

2-8% of the psychotic disorder

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Schizophreniform disorder

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Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, behavior, catatonic behavior present for a one month period

0.2% in a lifetime

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Schizoaffective disorder

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An uninterrupted period of illness during which there is a major mood episode concurrent with delusions, hallucinations, etc for one month

Combination of schizophrenia and mood disorder