Schizophrenia and Psychosis Flashcards
What are Schneider’s first-rank symptoms of schizophrenia?
Hell and Dell Passed Together
Hallucinations
Delusions
Passitivity phenomenon
Thought disorder
Hell and Dell Passed Together
Hallucinations [third person auditory]
Delusions
Passitivity phenomenon
Thought disorder
DTTP
First rank symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusions
Third person auditory hallucinations
Thought disorder[ insertion withdrawal or broadcast] BIW
Passitivity phenomenon
What are the positive features of schizophrenia
Delusions Held Firmly Think Psychosis
Delusions Hallucinations Formal thought disorder Thought interference Passitivity Phenomenon
What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Avolition, Asocial behaviour, Anhedonia, Alogia [poverty of speech], Affect blunted, Attention reduced
What is the commonest type of schizophrenia
Paranoid schizophrenia. There is hebephrenic schizoprenia where the thoghtt disorder predominateds, and simple schizophrenia without the psychosis
Taking a schizophrenia history
Have you ever had the experience of hearning noises or voices talking when there is nobody around and nothing to explain it? How many voices are there? Do they speak directly to you or about you? [second or third], Do they make comments about what your’e doing [third person running commentary], Are you afraid someone is trying to harm you, Have you noticed that people are doing or saying things that have a special meaning to you? When you watch the tele or papers, do you get messages specifically for you? [delusions], Any special powers? Thought out of find? Thoughts inside your head that are not yours and have been put inside by someone else? Have you ever felt under control by an outside force
In schizophrenia history, what questions about sleep must you always ask
Hypagognic hallucinations and hypnopompic hallucination
