Schizophrenia and delusions

Question 1

Schizo

Answer 1

Disordered thinking. Ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, lack of emotional expressiveness and disturbances in behaviour. Prev is 1%. Men slightly more than women.

Question 2

Positive symptoms

Answer 2

Comprise excesses and distortions, include hallucinations and delusions. Acute episodes usually characterised by positive symptoms

Question 3

Delusions

Answer 3

Beliefs contrary to reality and firmly held in spite of disconfirming evidence.

Question 4

Persecutory delusions

Answer 4

Belief that people are plotting against you

Question 5

Thought insertion

Answer 5

Belief that thoughts are not your own but placed into your mind by external source

Question 6

Thought broadcasting

Answer 6

Beleif that your thoughts are broadcasted or transmitted, others know what you’re thinking.

Question 7

External force

Answer 7

Belief that an external force controls your feelings or behaviour

Question 8

Grandiose delusions

Answer 8

Exaggerated sense of his of her own importance, power, knowledge or identity

Question 9

Ideas of reference

Answer 9

Incorporation of unimportant events within a delusional framework and reading personal significance into the trivial activities of others