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Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders Flashcards

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The 3 principle psychotic disorders

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Delirium
Schizophrenia
Affective psychosis

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Definition of psychosis

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Represents an inability to distinguish between symptoms of delusion, hallucination and disordered thinking from reality

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Main symptom of schizophrenia

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lack of insight

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What does a predisposing factor mean?

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putting you at risk

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What does a precipitating factor mean?

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something that starts it

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What does a perpetuating factor mean?

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keeping it going

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Presentation of psychosis

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Hallucinations
- full force and clarity of true perception 
- located in external space
- no external stimulus 
- not willed or controlled 
Delusional beliefs 
- grandiose
- paranoid (correctly persecutory)
- hypochondrial 
- self referential 
Lacks insight
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5 special senses of hallucinations

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Auditory 
Visual 
Tactile (touching you)
Olfactory 
Gustatory (Taste)
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Definition of delusion

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An unshakable idea or belief which is out of keeping with the persons social or cultural background; it is held with extraordinary conviction

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Illnesses that have psychotic symptoms

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Schizophrenia
Delerium
Severe affective disorder

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What is severe affective disorder?

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Either
- depressive episode with psychotic symptoms
OR
- manic episode with psychotic symptoms

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Differential diagnosis of psychosis

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Delerium 
Acute organic brain syndrome
Depressive episodes with psychotic symptoms 
Manic episodes with psychotic symptoms 
Schizophrenia 
Making it up e.g. in a police case
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Features of psychosis caused by delirium or acute organic brain syndrome

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Prominent visual experience, hallucinations and illusions
Affect of terror
Delusions are persecutory and evanescent (quickly disappear)
Fluctuating worse at night

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Definition of an illusion

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Abnormal perception of a real thing

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Features of psychosis caused by depressive episode with psychotic symptoms

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Delusions of guilt, worthlessness and persecution

Derogatory and auditory hallucinations

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Features of psychosis caused by a manic episode with psychotic symptoms

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Delusions of grandeur; special powers or messianic roles
Gross overactivity, irritability and behavioural disturbance
Manic excitement

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Treatment of psychosis

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Early intervention - family and psychological
Community treatment
Antipsychotics
Treatment to prevent relapse during remission
CBT
Cognitive remediation
Social skills training

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Definition of schizophrenia

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A severe mental illness affecting thinking, emotion and behaviour

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What is the most common cause of psychosis?

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Schizophrenia

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Who gets schizophrenia?

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M = F

onset 15-35 years

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Possible biological causes of schizophrenia

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genetics
neurochemistry (glutamate, GABA)
obstetric complications
maternal influenza
malnutrition and famine
winter birth 
substance misuse e.g. cannabis
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Symptoms of schizophrenia

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Positive
- hallucinations
- delusions
- disordered thinking
Negative
- apathy 
- lack of interest
- lack of emotions
- alogia 
- disturbed attention
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What is a “positive” symptom?

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A dramatic, more obvious symptom

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ICD-10 Criteria for schizophrenia

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> 1 month in the absence of organic or affective disorder
At least 1 of the following
- alteration of thought; echo, thought insertion, thought withdrawal, thought broadcasting
- delusions of control, influence or passivity (other people controlling you), clearly referred to body or limb movements - actions or sensations
- hallucinatory voices giving a running commentary on patients behaviour, or discussing him between themselves or other voices coming from somewhere in the body
- persistent delusions that are culturally inappropriate and completely impossible (e.g. controlling weather)
And OR at least two of the following
- persistent hallucinations of any modality, when occurring every day for at least 1 month
- Neologisms, breaks or interpolations in train of thought, resulting in incoherence or irrelevant speech
- Catatonic behaviour, such as excitement, posturing or wavy flexibility, negativism, mutism and stupor

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Good prognostic factors for schizophrenia

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Absence of FH
Good premorbid function 
Clear precipitant 
Acute onset
Mood disturbance
Prompt treatment 
Maintenance of initiative, motivation
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Poor prognostic factors for schizophrenia

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Slow, insidious, early onset
Prominent negative symptoms
Starts in childhood
Male 
Unmarried 
Non paranoid type
Negative / catatonic symptoms 
Absence of affective symptoms 
FH
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5 criteria for detention under the Mental Health Act

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Mental illness
Risk 
Treatment
SIDMA - severely impaired decision making 
Least restrictive option/necessary
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Once detained under the mental health act, what happens?

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Investigations to rule out organic cause
May need 24 hour observation by e.g. nurse
Start antipsychotic

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What type of symptoms do patients experience when they have their 1st presentation?

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+ve symptoms

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30
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What is the most common symptom of schizophrenia?

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Auditory hallucinations

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Definition of alogia

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Poverty of speech

32
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Can treatment for schizophrenia be given under the mental health act?

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Yes

33
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Complications of schizophrenia

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Suicide (4 - 10%)

Social and occupational decline

34
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What is the drug most associated with schizophrenia?

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Cannabis

35
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When do men present in comparison to women?

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Men present on average 5 years earlier

36
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What can trigger a presentation of acute schizophrenia?

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Big life stress

37
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Differentials for psychosis

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Schizotypical, schizoaffective and other delusional disorders
Mania
Delerium
Drug abuse / medications
Cerebral tumour / infarct / TLE / infection
Endocrine disease (thyroid, chronic hypoglycaemia, cushings, addisons)
Anaemia / carcinoma / sarcoid

38
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Type of hallucinations, delirium vs schizophrenia

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Delerium - visual

Schizophrenia - auditory

39
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What % of people with schizophrenia have 1 episode only?

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20%

40
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Types of schizophrenia

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Paranoid
Hebephrenic (disorganised)
Catatonic (motor)
Simple
Residual 
Post schizo depression 
Not otherwise specified
41
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What is the most common type of schizophrenia?

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Paranoid

42
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What happens in paranoid schizophrenia?

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Systemised delusions and hallucinations

43
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What happens in hebenephric schizophrenia?

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Delusions, thought form disorder, disturbed affect

44
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What is the treatment for catatonic schizophrenia?

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Lorazepam

45
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What happens in residual schizophrenia?

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Predominately -ve symptoms

46
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What happens in simple schizophrenia?

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Only -ve symptoms

47
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What are 1st rank symptoms strongly suggestive of?

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Schizophrenia

48
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Where can 1st rank symptoms be seen?

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Schizophrenia
Organic disorders
Mood disorders

49
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Types of delusions

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Paranoid / persecutory
Grandeur
Nilhilistic
Reference

50
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What is an over valued idea?

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Less than a delusion as not fully convicted

51
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Definition of a pseudohallucination

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Persons thoughts become alienated from them inside their head etc in trauma. They often know it is their own thoughts causing this

52
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What is circumstantiality?

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The inability to answer a question without giving excessive, unnecessary detail

53
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What are clang associations?

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Describes speech in which topics are related to each other only by sounding something similar

54
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What are flight of ideas?

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Describes speech in which there is rapid changing of subjects, unrelated to one another

55
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What is preservation?

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Describes repetition of speech on the same subject, despite attempting to change the subject

56
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What is tangentiality?

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Describes speech that wanders from a topic, without returning to it

57
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What are neologisms?

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New word formations, which might include the combining of two words

58
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What is word salad?

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Completely incoherent speech where real words are strung together into nonsense sentences

59
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What is knights move?

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Severe type of loosening of associations, where there are unexpected and illogical leaps from one idea to another

60
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What is knights move a feature of?

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Schizophrenia

61
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What is flight of ideas a feature of usually?

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Mania

62
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What is echolalia?

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A repetition of someone elses speech, including the question that was asked

63
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What may antipsychotics cause?

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Akathisia

64
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What is akathisia?

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Severe restlessness

65
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Which atypical antipsychotic has the most tolerance S/E profile, particularly for prolactin elevation?

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Aripriprazole

66
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What treatment is now first line for schizophrenic patients?

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Atypical antipsychotics

67
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What is the main advantage of atypical agents?

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They have a significant reduction in extrapyramidal S/Es

68
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S/Es of atypical antipsychotics

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Weight gain
Clozapine - agranulocytosis
Hyperprolactinaemia

69
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What risks are there for using antipsychotics in the elderly population?

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Increased risk of

  • stroke
  • VTE
70
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Examples of atypical antipsychotics

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Clozapine
Olanzapine
Risperidone
Quetiapine
Amisulpride
Arirpiprazole
71
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S/Es of clozapine

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Agranulocytosis (1%) and neutropenia (3%)
Reduced seizure threshold (can induce seizures in up to 3% of patients)
Constipation
Myocarditis (ECG before starting Tx)
Hypersalviation

72
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Due to clozapines S/Es, what does this mean in terms of treatment?

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Only used in patients who are resistant to other antipsychotic medication

73
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When may the dose of clozapine have to be adjusted?

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If smoking is stopped or started during the treatment

74
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Patients with poor oral compliance of anti-psychotics can be switched to what?

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Once monthly IM antipsychotic depot injections

75
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What is used to assess the severity of schizophrenia?

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Positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS)

76
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What does tardive dyskinesia present as a S/E of and how does it present?

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Due to late onset abnormal involuntary choreoathethoid movements in patients on conventional antipsychotics
Can present as 
- chewing
- jaw pouting
- excessive blinking
77
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What is it important to do if a patient is on clozapine and develops an infection?

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FBC - as need to exclude neutropenia due to clozapine

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