Schizophrenia - Description Flashcards

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What is schizophrenia a type of?

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Psychosis making it difficult for sufferers to understands reality as it really is

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What are the positive symptoms?

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  • Hallucinations
  • Delusions
  • Disordered thinking
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What are hallucinations?
Lewandowski (2009)?

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Hearing voices or seeing, tasting, smelling or feeling things others do not
Lewandowski - 20% have tactile hallucinations e.g. formication - resembles small insects crawling on or under the skin

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What are delusions?
Examples?

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holding strong beliefs that others around you do not share/find strange.
Paranoid - unfounded belief that someone wants to harm them
Grandiose/delusions of grandeur - inaccurate beliefs that one has special powers, wealth or identity

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What is disorganised thinking?

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thoughts and speech seems to jump from one topic to another for no apparent reason
and show now logical flow

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What are negative symptoms?

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  • Alogia
  • Avolition
  • Anhedonia
  • Flatness of effect
  • Catatonic behaviour
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What is Alogia?

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Poverty of speech

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What is avolition?

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Lack of motivation

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What is anhedonia?

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Lack of enjoyment

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What is flatness of effect?

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Display no emotion

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What is catatonic behaviour?
Example?

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Fast, repetitive, useless movement to little or no movement
Echopraxia - mimic movement of other around them

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What was ICD-10?
Subtypes?

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used as a way to diagnose those with schizophrenia
- Paranoid - mainly characterised by paranoid delusions
- Disorganised - speech/movement issues, muddled speech/disorganised thoughts
- Catatonic - movement issues, paralysis, echopraxia/echolalia
Have been removed from ICD-11

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