Schizophrenia Flashcards
When is the onset of schizophrenia?
Typically, late adolescence to early adulthood, though it can manifest in children or later in adulthood.
What are the early warning signs of schizophrenia?
Distortion of hygiene (often 1st sign), social withdrawal, deterioration of relationships, hostility, indifference, odd behavior, change of personality.
What causes schizophrenia?
Cause is unknown, but it probably results from a combination of genetic, neurobiological and non-genetic factors.
What is autistic thinking?
Ideas are derived from internal or private stimuli. These perceptions are not congruent with reality.
What is concrete thinking?
Characterized by immediate experience rather than abstraction. Overemphasis on specifics.
What is loose association?
Thinking is haphazard, illogical, confused and connections are interrupted.
What is tangential thinking?
An association disturbance in which the speaker goes off topic.
If the speaker frequently goes on tangents and doesn’t return to the topic, communication is destroyed.
What is blocking?
A sudden interruption in spontaneous flow of thinking or speaking. An absence or deprivation of thought.
What is an idea of reference?
False impressions that outside events have special meaning for oneself.
What are persecutive thoughts?
The belief that others are hostile or trying to harm the individual.
What is grandeur?
It is an exaggerated feeling or belief in or claims about ones importance or identity.
What are somatic thoughts?
An excessive preoccupation with physical symptoms. Body altered from normal form or function.
What is echolalia?
The act of mimicking or imitating the speech of another person.
What is clang association?
This is the meaningless rhyming of words. (It’s often in a forceful manner.)
What is a neologism?
A word that a person makes up that has meaning only for that person.
What is word salad?
The mixture of phrases that are meaningless to the listener and the speaker.