SCHIZOPHRENIA Flashcards
PRESENCE of inappropriate symptoms
Positive Symptoms - Increased Limbic Dopamine Activity
ABSENCE of appropriate symptoms
Negative Symptoms - Decreased Frontal Dopamine Activity
Beliefs contrary to reality and firmly held in spite of disconforming evidence
Delusions - Positive
A person may believe that thoughts that are not his or her own might have been PLACED in his or her mind by an EXTERNAL source
Thought INSERTION
A person may believe that his or her thoughts are BROADCASTED or TRANSMITTED, so that other know what he or she is thinking
Thought BROADCASTING
An exaggerated sense of his or her own importance, power, knowledge, or identity
Grandiose Delusions
Incorporating unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others
Ideas of Reference
Attempts to deal with and relieve anxiety and stress
Motivational View
Sees these beliefs as resulting from a BRAIN DYSFUNCTION that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions
Deficit View
The experience of SENSORY events without any input from the surrounding environment ; often AUDITORY than VISUAL
Hallucinations - Positive
Refers to a lack of MOTIVATION and a seeming absence of interest in an or inability to persist in what are usually routine activities
Avolition - Negative
Severe impairments in social relationships
Asociality - Negative
A loss of INTEREST in or a reported lessening of the experience of PLEASURE
Anhedonia - Negative
Refers to a lack of outward expression of emotion
Affective Flattening - Negative
Refers to a significant reduction in the amount of SPEECH
Alogia - Negative
