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Schizophrenia: Historical Perspective and Clinical Features Flashcards

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Define psychotic?

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Presence of hallucinations, delusions, limited number of behavioural abnormalities (e.g. gross exciteent, overactivity, psychomotor retardation, catatonic)

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Schizophrenia: First characterised diagnostic features?

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4As

Associations (loose e.g. incoherent speech)

Affect (i.e. how a mood presents- flat)

Autism (social withdrawal)

Ambivalence (+ve/-ve feelings)

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List types of schizophrenia symptoms

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Positive (halluc, delusions, thought disorder)

Negative (expressive deficits, withdrawal)

Disorganisation (thought disorder)

Affective disturbance (hopelessness, hypomania)

Disturbed behaviour (social withdrawal, depressed features)

Impaired social cognition (lack of empathy)

Neurocognitive function (attention, memory, exec function)

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“Classical” schizophrenia subtypes?

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NB: these categories are seen as being overalapping and have questionable validity/clinical relevance

  • Paranoid: persecutory/grandiose delusions, derogatory auditory hallucinations
  • Hebephrenic: disorganisation syndrome (formal thought disorder), affective flattening/incongruity, bizarre behaviour
  • Catatonic: multiple motor, volitional + behavioural disorders, stupor and excitement
  • Simple: insidious but progressive impoverishment of mental life without development of florid sympsoms
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Outline the 2 syndrome model of schizophrenia

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Type 1 
positive symptoms
acute
good response to meds
reversible
no intellectual impairment
increased DA receptors
Type 2
negative symptoms
chronic
poor response to meds
irreversible?
intellectual impairment
cell loss + structural damage
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Outline Liddle’s Three Syndromes for schizophrenia

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  • Psychomotor poverty: speech poverty, decreased spontaneous mvmt, unchanging facial expression, paucity of expressive gesture, affective non-response, lack of vocal inflections
  • Disorganisation syndrome: inappropriate affect, poverty of speech content, tangentiality, derailment, pressure of speech, distractibility
  • Reality distortion: voices speak to patient, delsuions of persecution, delusions of reference
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Risk of death in schizophrenia?

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Increased compared to general population (2.5x)

This gap seems to be increasing

[mortality data comparable to heavy smokers]

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Main factors why schizophrenia pts have worse physical health (and increased mortality)?

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Risk associated w/

  • Diabetes: higher risk of glycaemic abnormalities with FEP
  • CVD: share same path features: ox. stress, neuroinflamm, mitoch dys
  • Antipsychotic treatment
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Other contributors why schizophrenia pts have worse physical health (and increased mortality)?

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  • lack of access to preventative care
  • suboptimal cardiac care
  • unhealthy lifestyle
  • smoking
  • social deprivation
  • poor diet
  • poor compliance with meds
  • high level of substance use
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Schizophrenia contributors for genetic aetiology

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  • Susceptibility genes: SNPs, CNVs, rare variants; Neuregulin 1, Dysbindin, DISC1
  • Advancing paternal age
  • MHC variation: excessive or insufficient synaptic pruning controlled by C4
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Possible evidence between cannabis and later psychosis?

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40% increase risk in psychosis in individuals who had ever used cannabis

UK prison inmates: cannabis users < 16 -> x2 risk of functional psychosis

Swedish cohort study: heavy use age 18 -> x6 risk of schizophrenia

See: Dunedin, Christchurch, Munich

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Reverse causality of cannabis and schizophrenia- alternative theories?

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Ppl experiencing early schizophrenia symptoms might turn to cannabis to self-medicate?

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Possible mechanism influencing relationship between cannabis and schizophrenia?

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Genetic-environmental factors:

COMT (on chr22q11) encodes catechol-o-methyltransferase, involved w/ DA metab in synapse

Common mutation is valine -> methionine -> less active enzyme

MM/MV: cannabis doesn’t increase schiz risk

VV: cannabis does increase schiz risk

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Disease progression of schizophrenia?

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  1. Premorbid (asymptomatic)
    2, prodromal symptoms (sleep disturbance, paranoia, withdrawal)
  2. progression (episodes of psychosis)
  3. stable/relapsing (more stable w/ treatment)
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Define DUP?

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Duration of untreated psychosis

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Importance of DUP?

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Longer DUPs associated w/ poorer response to meds and poorer symptomatic + functional outcomes during first several years of treatment

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Mechanism of relationship between DUP and poor med and symptom response

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  • active morbid process in brain w/ unchecked psychosis attenuated w/ antipsychotics
  • Psychosical effects of prolonged DUP to mediate impact on outcomes
  • pts with intrinsically poorer prognosis present later to services- possibly related to symptom profile
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Subdomains of negative symptoms?

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Alogia: decrease in verbal output/expressiveness

Affective blunting/flattenting: diminished facial emotional expression, poor eye contact, less spontaneous movement, less sponaneity

Avolition: reduced interests/goals, less purposeful acts

Asociality: lack of self-initiated social interactions

Anhedonia: unable to experience pleasure from positive stimuli

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Primary VS secondary negative symptoms?

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Primary: due to schizophrenia

Secondary: positive psychotic symptoms, depression, PD

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Prevalence of negative symptoms?

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1/2-3/4 of ppl w/ chronic schizo will have -ve symptoms

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Types of abnormal affect in schizophrenia?

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Blunted/flattened affect:
- quantitaive abnormality: reduced emotional intensity and variation
(an example of restrictive affect, as it’s depressive affect)

Inappopriate/incongruous affect

  • “laughing at bad news”
  • qualitative abnormality: affective response is incompatible w/ new ideals/thoughts
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Relationship between depressive symptoms and schizophrenia?

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Can be seen in separate stages: prodromal, acute episode, post-psychotic- early and late

[look this up]

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Relationship between suicide and schizophrenia?

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12x more than general population

Highest in young pts at early stage

[males prone on using violent methods]

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Risk factors for suicide for schizophrenics?

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  • young
  • male
  • high level of education
  • no. or prior attempts
  • depressive symptoms
  • halluc/delusions
  • agitation/restlessness
  • PTSD
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Protective factors agaisnt suicide in schizophrenia?

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Delivery and adherance to effective treatment

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Subtypes of positive symptoms in schizophrenia?

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Perceptual disorder
- hallucinations

Thought disorder
- thought: form/stream/control/content

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Features of hallucinations?

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  • auditory: voices usually]- most common
  • visual: orbs/flashes of colour
  • somatic/tactile: feelings of being touched/intercouse/pain
  • olfactory]- rare
  • gustatory: odd smells/tastes]- rare
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Define hallucinations and delusions

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hallucinations: perception in the absence of an external sensory stimulus
delusions: false, unshakeable belief which is out of keeping with the patient’s cultural and educational background]- i.e. conclusions with irrational logic e.g. my wife is cheating because traffic light turned green

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Define delusional mood?

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Strange, uncanny mood where environment appears changed in a threatening way that is not understood

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Common delusional themes?

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Grandiose: belief person has some special significance or power

Paranoid: belief one is being harmed or persecuted by particular person or group. Common and clinically important because they may prevent the individual from cooperating with evaluation or treatment

Nihilistic: uncommon, bizarre belief that one is dead or one’s body is breaking down or that one does not exist

Erotomanic: person erroneously believes that he/she has a special relationship with someone

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Presentations of thought disorder in schizophrenia

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Tangentiality: moves away from the topic without appropriately answering a question

Circumstantiality: answers to questions delayed by unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks

Derailment: switches topic without any logic, ‘knight’s move thinking’

Neologisms: creation of new, idiosyncratic words

Word salad: incoherence, words are thrown together without any sensible meaning

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What is insight?

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When a patient acknowledges that they have a mental illness

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Good insight VS Poor insight

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Clinical correlates of POOR insight

  • Poor treatment outcome
  • Poor response to rehabilitation
  • Poor global insight/acceptance of need for treatment associated with poor medication compliance.
  • Unawareness of the social consequences of the disorder associated with poor social function/interpersonal function

Clinical correlates of GOOD insight

  • Medication adherence
  • Adherence to outpatient treatment.
  • Fewer hospital admissions
  • Increased hopelessness, depression and suicidal behaviour
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Features of neurocognitive deficits in schizophrenia?

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Global intellectual decline: IQ

Memory: verbal and working

Executive function: goal setting/decisions, WCST-working memory, planning, response inhib, attentional shift

Attention: sustained and selective

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Clinical impact of neurocog deficits?

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Poorer functional outcome?

  • work/social connections
  • independent living
  • skill acquisition in rehab programs
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Overview of abornmal involuntary movement (AIM) in schizophrenia?

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  • decreased spontaneous mvmt
  • abnormal response to witnessed/imposed movement
  • increased spontaneous movement (automatic obedience, resistance, excessive compliance)
  • postural abnormalities (more tone)
  • abormal patterned movement (clumsiness, spasms etc)
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Outcomes in schizophrenia?

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  • 1/8 with FEP will recover early and not experience recurrence
  • Recovery based on clinical and functional domains
  • 30-50% gain satisfactory outcome clinically and psychosocially
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Neurodevelopmental model for schizophrenia?

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Decreased prefrontal DA activity

Increased mesolimbic DA activity

Both predispose to psychosis

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Factors affecting vulnerability to DA dysregulation?

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  • Neurodevelopmental genes (Neuregulin, Dysbinding, DISC-1)
  • Environmental brain insults (obstetric events)
  • NT genes (COMT)
  • Substance use (cannabis)
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Environmental factors contributing to schizophrenia?

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  • cannabis use
  • maternal infection
  • hypoxia at birth
  • season at birth
  • urban dwelling
  • migration

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