Schizophrenia and other Psychotic Disorders

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There is a prominent loss of reality functioning, manifested through positive and negative symptoms, affecting an individual’s daily activities.

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Psychotic Disorders

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A conglomeration of disturbances in thought, emotion, and behavior.

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Schizophrenia

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Characterized by disordered thinking, faulty perception and attention, lack of emotional responsiveness or inappropriate expression, disturbances in movement and behavior, and social withdrawal.

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Schizophrenia

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It sometimes begins with childhood but is usually precipitated within late adolescence or early adulthood (men develop it earlier than women)

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Schizophrenia

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False belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality.

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Delusion

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False belief that one is going to be harmed, harassed, or one’s loved ones are being persecuted.

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Persecutory Delusion

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A belief that everyday events, objects, or other people have an unusual personal significance.

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Referential Delusion

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An Individual believes that he or she has exceptional abilities.

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Grandiose Delusion

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Beliefs that one’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are being imposed or controlled by an external force.

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Delusion of being controlled

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An individual believes falsely that another person is in love with him or her.

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Erotomanic Delusion

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The conviction that a major catastrophe will occur.

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Nihilistic Delusion

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False belief that one’s appearance or part of one’s body is diseased or altered.

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Somatic Delusion

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Belief that thoughts are being removed from one’s mind by another person or object.

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Thought withdrawal

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False belief that one has committed a terrible act or is responsible for a terrible event.

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Delusion of guilt or sin

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False belief that their spouses or romantic partners have been unfaithful.

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Delusional jealousy

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a false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli.

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Hallucination

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is usually experienced as voices, whether familiar or unfamiliar, that are perceived as distinct from the individual’s own thoughts

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Auditory Hallucination

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involve the perception that something is happening to the outside of the body.

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Tactile Hallucination

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visual perception of something that is not actually present.

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Visual Hallucination

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The individual may switch from one topic to another.

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Loose associations

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inability to express oneself clearly and orderly, most commonly manifested as disjointed and unintelligible speech.

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Incoherence or word salad

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Answers to questions may be obliquely related or completely unrelated

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Tangentiality

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is a marked decrease in reactivity to the environment.

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Catatonic behavior

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lack of reaction and unawareness of surroundings

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Stupor

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lack of response to instructions

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Negativism

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lack of verbal response

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Mutism

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limbs stay in the position another person puts them in

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Waxy Flexibility

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repetitive movements for no reason

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Stereotypy

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holding a posture that fights gravity.

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Posturing

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severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness

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Agitation

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contorted facial movements

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Grimacing

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meaningless repetition of another person’s word

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Echolalia

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pathological imitation of movements of one person by another.

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Echopraxia

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refers to a lack of motivation and a seeming absence of interest in or an inability to persist in what are usually routine activities, including work or school, hobbies, or social activities.

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Avolition

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refers to a significant reduction in the amount of speech.

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Alogia

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A loss of interest in or a reported lessening of the experience of pleasure

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Anhedonia

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Refers to a lack of outward expression of emotion.

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Blunted Affect

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severe impairments in social relationships

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Asociality

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This lasts from 1 day to 1 month, and is often brought by extreme stress.

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Same symptoms as schizophrenia but only last for 1 month to less than 6 months.

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Schizophreniform

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Symptoms for 6 months. At least 1 month of acute episode or active phase.

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Schizophrenia

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comprises a mixture of symptoms of schizophrenia and mood disorders for at least 1 month.

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Schizoaffective disorder

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is troubled by persistent delusions but no symptoms of schizophrenia.

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Delusional disorder

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The theory that schizophrenia is related to the excess activity of the neurotransmitter dopamine is based principally on the knowledge that drugs effective in treating schizophrenia reduce dopamine activity.

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Dopamine Theory

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produce side effects resembling the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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stressors associated with SES (socioeconomic status) and urban living may contribute to the development of schizophrenia

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Sociogenic hypothesis

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These mothers were characterized as rejecting, overprotective, self-sacrificing, impervious to the feelings of others, rigid and moralistic about sex, and fearful of intimacy.

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schizophrenogenic mothers

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which includes hostility, critical comments, and emotional overinvolvement has been linked with relapse in schizophrenia

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Expressed emotion