(Schizophrenia) Negative Symptoms

Question 1

What is a negative symptom?

Answer 1

less obvious symptoms that refer to a lack or reduction of normal behaviours.

Question 2

Define the term Apathy?

Answer 2

lack of effort or energy to do mundane activities, lack of desire and have a lack of self-care.

Question 3

What does the ‘flat-affect’ entail?

Answer 3

general lack of emotion. extreme emotional distance, no outward emotional expression.

Question 4

Define how a deteriorated appearance would show in a sufferer of Schizophrenia

Answer 4

Lack of mundane hygiene and healthcare, can often defy social norms of cleanliness and health.

Question 5

What is impaired social interaction?

Answer 5

the hindrance upon the ability to maintain or initiate meaningful relationships with others due to a disruption in social skills or communicative patterns.

Question 6

Define Anhedonia

Answer 6

the lack of or a reduced ability to experience pleasure and providing inappropriate emotional expressions.

Question 7

What does Alogia refer to?

Answer 7

often described as the ‘poverty of speech’ sufferers may experience a decreased outward expression of speech and seem as though they lack conversational skills.

Question 8

What is Catatonic Movement?

Answer 8

the state in which a sufferer is physically present but does not seem to engage with others or their environment, schizophrenia that involves catatonia often stands out because it involves extremely high levels of movement or no movement at all.