Schizophrenia

Question 1

Emil Kraepelin classified the symptoms of schizophrenia based on what etiology? He termed “dementia praecox” to related to delusions, hallucinations, and motor problems. He identified the symptoms that are currently classified as negative symptoms.

Answer 1

physical symptoms

Question 2

Eugene Bleuler classified the concept of schizophrenia as a split from what two types of reality? He described schizophrenia as associations, ambivalence, affect, and autism.

Answer 2

Split with internal and external reality

Question 3

Kurt Schneider categorized what two types of symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 3

First and second rank symptoms

Question 4

Kurt Schneider stated that a diagnosis of schizophrenia an be made with only on of what type of symptom?

Answer 4

First rank

Question 5

In adoptive studies, it was determined that schizophrenia was found only in the children of mother with what?

Answer 5

Schizophrenic.

Question 6

What is the correlation between consanguinity and incidence of schizophrenia?

Answer 6

The closer the consanguinity (familial relationship), the higher the incidence of schizophrenia.

Question 7

What type of neurological pathways seem to be altered in schizophrenic patients?

Answer 7

dopaminergic pathways

Question 8

Dopamine increase within this pathway results in hallucinations and delusions.

Answer 8

Mesolimbic pathway

Question 9

Malfunction in this pathway results in disordered thinking, such as negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Answer 9

Mesocorticol pathway

Question 10

A decrease in dopamine in this pathway will produce muscular dyscontrol and trembling and contribute to the extrapyramidal side ffects such as tar dive diskinesia.

Answer 10

Nigrostriatal pathway

Question 11

Blocking dopamine in this pathway can cause an increase in prolactin levels which leads to hyperlocatinemia and may lead to sexual dysfunction.

Answer 11

Tubuloinfundibular pathway

Question 12

Excess of this neurotransmitter may contribute to the positive or negative symptoms of schizophenria.

Answer 12

Seratonin

Question 13

What type of disorder is associated with the presence of one or more delusions with a duration of 1 month or longer, but functioning and behavior is not altered?

Answer 13

Delusional Disorder

Question 14

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby another person is in love with the individual?

Answer 14

Erotomanic Type

Question 15

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion is the conviction of having some great but unrecognized talent or insight or having made some important discovery?

Answer 15

Grandiose Type

Question 16

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby the individual believes that the spouse or partner is unfaithful?

Answer 16

Jealous Type

Question 17

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby the individual believes the he or she is being conspired against, cheated, spied on, followed, poisoned, druged, harassed, or obstructed in the pursuits of long-term goals?

Answer 17

Persecutory Type

Question 18

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby body sensations or functions are experienced?

Answer 18

Somatic Type

Question 19

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby no one delusional theme predominates?

Answer 19

Mixed Type

Question 20

What subtype of delusional disorder is associated with a central theme of delusion whereby the dominant belief cannot be determined or is not described in the specific types?

Answer 20

Unspecified

Question 21

What type of content, associated with a delusional disorder, are clearly implausible, not understandable, and not derived from ordinary life experiences?

Answer 21

Bizarre content

Question 22

What type of disorder is associated with sudden onset of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or abnormal psychomotor heavier?

Answer 22

Brief psychotic disorder

Question 23

With marked stressors, without marked stressors, and with catatonia is referred to as specifiers for which disease?

Answer 23

Brief psychotic disorder

Question 24

What disorder is characterized by symptoms identical to schizophrenia BUT is differentiated by duration of illness? There is no social or impaired social function. Episodes last at least one month but less than 6 months.

Answer 24

Schizophreniform Disorder

Question 25

What disorder is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, grossly disorganized beavhior, and negative symptoms such as diminished emotional expression and avoidance?

Answer 25

Schizophrenia Disorder

Question 26

What type of schizophrenia symptoms are characterized as distortions or exaggerations of normal functions which may have hyerpativity of dopamine receptors, specifically, in the dopamine-hyperactive limbic system which contributes to delusions and hallucinations? Auditory hallucinations are the most common type.

Answer 26

Positive symptoms

Question 27

What type of schizophrenia symptoms are absent of normal heavier and emotions and are associated with constriction (reduction in intensity or feeling tone), blunted (reduction in verbal or behavioral expressed feeling), and flat (absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression?

Answer 27

Negative symptoms

Question 28

What type of disorder is classified as an uninterrupted period of illness during which there is a major mood episode (major depressive or manic) concurrent with symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 28

Schizoaffective Disorder

Question 29

What is associated with another mental disorder and involves stupor, catalepsy, waxy flexibility, mutsim, negativism, posturing, mannerism, stereotype, agitation, grimacing, echolalia, and echopraxia?

Answer 29

Catatonia

Question 30

Typical antipsychotics have a greater risk to cause what symptoms, such as tar dive dyskinesia, than ayptical antipsychotics?

Answer 30

Extrapyramidal

Question 31

What syndrome is caused to the abrupt withdrawal of a dopamine precursor with the use of dopamine receptor antagonists? This condition may be life threatening. Symptoms include hyperthermia, muscular rigidity, and autonomic dysregulation.

Answer 31

Neurleptic Malignant Syndrome

Question 32

What type of antipsychotic medications are associated with peripheral and central anticholingeric side effects?

Answer 32

Atypical antipsychotics

Question 33

What type of dyskinesia describers the involuntary movements of the face, trunk, or extremities and occurs to prolonged exposure to a dopamine receptor blocking agents? This may NOT resolve after onset.

Answer 33

Tardive Dyskinesia

Question 34

What type of syndrome may result when second generation atypical antipsychotic medications have been used?

Answer 34

Metabolic Syndrome

Question 35

True or False. People with Schizophrenia have a higher rate of suicide than the general population.

Answer 35

True.