Schizophrenia

Question 1

Misperception of real external stimuli

Answer 1

Illusion

Question 2

Sensory perceptions not generated by external stimuli

Answer 2

Hallucinations

Question 3

Feeling as though people are referring to you in their conversations

Answer 3

Ideas of reference

Question 4

False beliefs not correctable by logic or reason

Answer 4

Delusions

Question 5

Patient mute or speaks few words

Answer 5

Alogia

Question 6

Repeating statements of others/associating words y their sounds

Answer 6

Echolalia

Question 7

Abrupt halt in train of thinking–often because of hallucinations

Answer 7

Thought blocking

Question 8

inventing new words

Answer 8

Neologisms

Question 9

Characteristic symptoms

Answer 9

Must persist for at least 6 months and last 1 month

Delusions
Hallucinations
Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms–flat affect, allege, abolition
Disorganized speech

Question 10

Postive symptoms

Answer 10

Delusions
Hallucinations
Agitation
Talkativeness
Though disorder

Question 11

Negative symptoms

Answer 11

Lack of motivation
Social withdrawal
Fattened affect/emotion
Cognitive disturbances
Poor grooming
Poor/impoverished speech 

Better response with atypicals

Question 12

Three phases of schizophrenia

Answer 12

Prodromal–Prior to first psychotic break
Psychotic/active–loss of touch with reality
Residual–period btw psychotic episodes, in touch with reality, but doesn’t behave normally

Question 13

Abnormalities in frontal lobes

Answer 13

Hypofrontality–decreased glucose in prefrontal cortex

Question 14

Neurological abnormalities

Answer 14

Hypofrontality
Lateral and 3rd ventricle enlargement
Loss of asymmetry
Decreased volume of hippocampus, amygdala and parahippocampal gyrus