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SCHIZOPHRENIA Flashcards

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neurosis is less severe=

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anxiety and mood disorder

-symptoms of stress but not a radical loss of touch with reality

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psychosis is more severe=

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a loss of contact with reality

*can be psychotic but also experience symptoms of neurosis

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History

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Dementia Praecox- Biological = Kraepelin, 1893

Schizophrenia- Freudian = Eugene Bleuler, 1911

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Epidemiology

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  • 0.7% of people
  • higher prevalence un inner cities/ lower socioeconomic
  • 20% of psychiatric hospitals
  • 20% attempted suicide admissions
  • 2/3 of ‘insanity pleas’ in legal cases
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Onset

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  • usually between late teens and mid 30s
  • only if symptoms persist for 6 months
  • three episodes: prodromal, active and residual
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DSM-5

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NO LONGER SUBTYPES

2 or more for at least a month/signs of disturbance for 6 months or more:

  1. delusions (+)
  2. hallucinations(+)
  3. disorganised speech(+)
  4. disorganised behaviour
  5. negative symptoms
  • diminished level of functioning in work, relationships or self care

Positive symptoms (also includes motor and thought disturbances)= generally more responsive t treatment than negative symptoms

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Thought broadcasting

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one’s own thoughts are being broadcast or transmitted to others

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Thought withdrawal

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ones thoughts are being removed from ones own mind

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Delusions of grandeur

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one is famous or powerful person from past or present

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Delusions of control

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some external force is trying to take control of one’s thoughts

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Delusions of reference

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all happenings revolve around oneself/ centre of attention

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Delusions of persecution

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one is the target of others’ mistreatment, evolution plots, murderous intent

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Delusions of jealousy

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that everyone is jealous of them

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Hallucinations- sensory perception is not perceived by others

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  • auditory= sounds and voices outside
  • visual= clear or vague
  • tactile- tingling, burning, electric shock
  • somatic-insects crawling under skin
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Disorganised thinking and speech

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Illogical, disconnected thought and speech patterns

-thought alienation
derailment 
neologisms 
-perseveration 
-clang and rhyming 
-word salad
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loose associations (cognitive slippage)

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repeatedly shifting from topics without apparent or logical connection

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neologisms

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new, seemingly meaningless words formed by combining words

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disorganised motor disturbances

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extreme activity levels, peculiar body movements or postures, strange gestures and grimaces

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Negative symptoms examples

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  • flat affect- show no emotion at all
  • anhedonia- lack of pleasure or enjoyment
  • alogia- reduction in amount and meaningful content of speech
  • avolition- feeling drained of energy and unable to initiate course of action
  • inability to engage in routine or goal-directed activities
  • inability to feel pleasure; lack of interest or enjoyment in activities or relationships
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The prodromal phase

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  • changed occur in weeks, months, years before
  • irritability
  • fragmentary psychotic symptoms
  • avoidance of work and social functioning
  • “attenuated general functioning”
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The active phase

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  • “Florid” psychotic symptoms (distortions in thinking, delusions, hallucinations(
  • anxiety, depressions and fear
  • difficult to distinguish between manic episode
  • dangerous with presence of paranoid elements
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The residual phase

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  • symptoms ease a bit
  • same symptoms may persist

*not a DSM term

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Schizoaffective disorders

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  • presence of schizophrenia and bipolar

* some clinicians think schizophrenia is a group of disorders- different symptoms = different treatments

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Genetics

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  • 80% heritability (17% fraternal-prenatal and 48% identical twins)
  • adoption studies
  • epigenetics- changing of expression of genes to be coded
  • mutations are rare
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The dopamine hypothesis

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excessive levels of dopamine or sensitivity to dopamine (uptake)

*antipsychotic drugs lower dopamine amounts

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Enlarged ventricles

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  • CT scene and MRI
  • deteriorations or atrophy of brain- increased blood flow
  • increased compared to twin or sibling
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substance abuse

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  • biological vulnerability
  • may not be first exposure, may be fourth or fifth
  • ecstatcy, alcohol, cocaine, marijuana, crystal meth
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Stress

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of life events and trauma -in combination with biological vulnerability

  • hallucinations often be meaningfullly linked to earlier trauma or stress
  • high rates of reports of child abuse and trauma (childhood risk factors)
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Smoking

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  • correlation

- cigarettes used a a from of self-medication, not that cigarettes trigger psychosis

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Social causation hypothesis

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different standards of healthcare, poorer living conditions which increase stress

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Social drift hypothesis

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clinical features of psychotic disorder contribute to gradual downward socioeconomic trajectory

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Conventional antipsychotic drugs

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  • reduce positive symptoms of schizophrenia in around 65% of cases
  • unwanted Parkinson’s disease side effects:muscle tremors, muscle rigidity, taking, shuffling feet, lack of facial expression
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Atypical antipsychotic drugs

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  • act of both dopamine and serotonin systems
  • more effective: help 85% of schizophrenics
  • help negative and positive symptoms

*major danger in side-effects e.e.g agranulocytosis

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Group Therapy

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Hearing Voices Network

-bring people who suffer from hallucinations together to talk about their experiences and to find their voices

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Prognosis

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  • after 5 years, one quarter recover completely
  • gradually improves, only deterioration in 10%
  • better prognosis for this diagnosed in adulthood than childhood
  • 20% of people attempt suicide
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Recurrence

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  • 20%have only one episode
  • 35% go on to have several episodes with no impairment between
  • about 10% have multiple episode with a static level of functional and personality impairment. between
  • 35% have multiple episodes with increasing levels of impairment
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Subclinical symptoms

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Experiences associated with schizophrenia- such as paranoid delusional thinking and auditory hallucinations- are observes in an attenuated for in 5-8& of healthy people.

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Unusual belief in the general population

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  • 45% beloved in telepathy
  • 45% believed in the ability to predict the future
  • 31% believed in ghosts
  • 21% said there had been ties over the past year when they’d felt that people were against them
  • 9% said they had believed that they thoughts were being controlled or interfered with by some outside force or person
  • 1.5% said there had been ties when they’d felt people were plotting to cause them serious harm.

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