Schizophrenia

Question 1

Schizophrenia 5 domains

Answer 1

• Delusions
• Hallucinations,
• Disorganized thinking (speech)
• Grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior
• Negative symptoms

Question 2

Eight common myths

Answer 2

• Split personality disorder
• Bad parenting
• Drug Experimentation
• Lack of motivation
• Rising Incidence
• Institutionalization and Disablity
• Low Intelligence
• Lack of Motivation

Question 3

Etiology of Schizophrenia

Answer 3

• Organic Involvment
• Hereditary
• Stress
• Neurological
  
  • CT / MRI / MEG / PET
• No single causal factor
• Structural Anomalies
• Role of Dopamine
• Role of Viruses
• Time of birth, weight, parental age factors
• Food Substances

Question 4

Positive Symptoms 1

Answer 4

• Delusions
• Perceptual distortions
  
  • Hallucinations
  • Uncontrolled laughing
  • “Silliness”
• Language Disterbances
  
  • Bizarre speech
  • Echolia
  • Circumstantiality, tangentiality, loosening of association, incoherency and pressured speech

Question 5

Positive Symptoms 2

Answer 5

• Motoric repsonses
  
  • Pacing
  • Rocking and restlessness
  • lethary
• Sleep Disturbances
• Prognosis is based on Positive vs. Negative Symptoms

Question 6

Negative Symptoms

Answer 6

• Affective flattening or blunting
• Alogia
• Avolition
• Anhedonia or hypohedonia
• Inattention

Question 7

Prognosis

Answer 7

• Data
• Deficit versus Non-Deficit rate of recovery
• Affects on severity and prognosis
• Age related prognosis
• Recovery

Question 8

Deficit Vs. Non-Deficit

Answer 8

• Deficit has more negative symptoms
• Non Deficit has more positive symptoms