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Schizophrenia - Paper 3 Flashcards

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What is Schizophrenia?

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Severe mental disorder affecting 1% of the population

More common in males, city dwellers and low social economic groups

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What is classification?

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Identifying symptoms that go together

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What are the two classification systems?

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DSM - 5 = requires 1 or more positive symptom

ICD - 10 = requires 2 or more negative symptoms

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What are positive symptoms?

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Additional experiences beyond ordinary

Hallucinations

Delusions

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What are negative symptoms?

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Loss of usual ability and experiences

Speech poverty

Avolition -loss motivation

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Evaluation of diagnosis (reliability and validity)

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+ good diagnosis reliability - consistent. Inter rater reliability

  • low validity - 2 independently assess 100 participants - 68 ICD and 39 DSM
  • gender bias - men diagnosed more than women - women mask symptoms
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What is diagnosis reliability?

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A diagnosis must be repeatable

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What is test-retest reliability?

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Clinicians reaching the same conclusion at 2 different points in time

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What is inter - rater reliability?

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Different clinicians researching the same conclusion

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How is inter-rater reliability measured?

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Kappa score

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Describe Copeland’s research into cultural differences

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134 US
194 UK

Description patient given

69% US diagnosed

2% UK diagnosed

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What is symptom overlap?

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Symptoms of sz found in other disorders

Depression bipolar

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What is co-morbidity?

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The extent 2 or more conditions can occur at the same time

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What is the genetic basis of schizophrenia study?

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Family studies

Gotterman - large scale

Aunt 2%
Sibling 9%
Identical twin 48%

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Evaluation of Gotterman

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Family share the same environment
Nature v nurture

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What is the candidate gene schizo

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Polygenic - require several genes

Ripke et al - 108

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What is mutation in schizophrenia

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In parent DNA

Correlation between parental age and risk

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Evaluation of the genetic basis of schizophrenia

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+ streng evidence - family studies, twin studies

  • environmental risk - birth complications, childhood trauma
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What are neural correlates: the role of dopamine

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Features in functioning of brain system related to symptoms

20
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What is the original DA hypothesis

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Hyperdopaminergia associated with subcortex
Hallucinations and poverty of speech e.g. Broca’s area

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What is the updated DA hypothesis

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Hypodopaminergia linked prefrontal cortex - explain negative, early stress

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Evaluate the role of dopamine

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+ support - antipsychotic reduce symptoms, candidate genes produce DA, dopamine involved

  • role of glutamate - post mortem and scanning, raised glutamate, role of other neurotransmitters
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Psychological explanations - Family dysfunction - schizophregenic mothers

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Rejecting and controlling create tension and secrecy.
Lead to distrust, paranoid delusions and schizophrenia

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What is the double bind

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Bateson et al - child trapped, fear wrong thing, get wrong, punished by withdrawal of love
Lead disorganised thinking

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What is expressed emotion

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Verbal criticism, hostility, over-involvement and stress

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Evaluate family dysfunction

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+ evidence - schizophrenic disproportionately likely to have insecure attachment, around 60% history of abuse

  • poor evidence - no evidence support traditional family based theories, based on clinical observations, cannot explain link
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What are the cognitive explanations - dysfunction thought

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Low level informational processing suggest cognitive impairment

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Metarepresentation leads to hallucinations

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Dysfunction recognise own thoughts. And lead to hearing voices

29
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Central control to speech poverty

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Derailment of thought, each trigger automatic associations they cannot suppress

30
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Evaluate cognitive explanations

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+ evidence - compare performance on cognitive tasks. SZ took 2x as long

  • proximal origins explained - what happening now, possible genetic / family, only partial explanation - reductionism
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Biological therapy - typical antipsychotics

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Dopamine antagonists - aim reduce actions of dopamine

Block dopamine receptors in synapse

Chlorpromazine sedation - clam anxious patients when first admitted

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Biological therapy - atypical antipsychotics

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Newer drug - maintain and improve effectiveness

Clozapine on dopamine, Glutamate on serotonin - reduce depression and anxiety

Risperdone as effective but safer - clozapine involves deaths

33
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Evaluate biological therapy of schizophrenia

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+ evidence for effectiveness - associated better functioning and reduced severity
- counter - short term effects, some published multiple times, benefit due to calming effect

  • side effects - dizziness, agitation, weight gain, can be fatal
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Psychological therapy - CBTp

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Identify and change irrational thought

Understand - normalisation explains client that hearing voices is ordinary

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Evaluation of CBT

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+ evidence - reduction in auditory hallucinations

+ quality - different techniques for different symptoms, treating particular person

+ nomothetic

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Psychological therapy - family therapy

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Reduce negative emotions - anger and guilt which create stress

Improve family ability to help - family belief, balance between care and maintaining life

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Psychological therapy - family therapy

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Reduce negative emotions - anger and guilt which create stress

Improve family ability to help - family belief, balance between care and maintaining life

38
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Evaluation of family therapy

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+ evidence - relapse rate reduced by 50%

+ benefit whole family - negative impact on family

39
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Management of schizophrenia

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Token economies - gift for every good act then exchanged for privileges, used for personal care.
Related behaviour and social behaviour
1. Quality of life
2. Normalises behaviour
Operant conditioning - reinforces

40
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Evaluation of management of schizophrenia

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+ effectiveness - reduction negative symptoms, decline in frequency of unwanted behaviour

  • ethical issues - control peoples behaviour, restrict pleasure of already ill people
  • more pleasant alternatives - art therapy, pleasant experience, no side effects
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The interactionalist approach - diathesis stress

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Vulnerability and trigger

Meehl’s model - diathesis genetic, someone without schizo gene wont develop

Modern understanding - many genes increase - trauma affecting brain development e.g. cannabis up 7x as effect dopamine

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Evaluation of interactionalist approach

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+ dual role vulnerability and stress - high criticism implemented cause SZ but only with genetic

  • oversimplistic - no schizo gene, stress can include bio

+ real world application - benefit, can help treating

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Key study validity and reliability - Rosenhan

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8 confederates - 12 different hospitals - said hearing voices - acted normal when on ward - average stay 19 days

44
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Key study validity and reliability - Rosenhan - validity

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Normal behaviour misinterpreted as abnormal to support idea that pseudopatients had mental illness. Validity low and DSM flawed

45
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Key study validity and reliability - Rosenhan - reliability

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Cannot tell difference between schizo and bipolar depression - Same symptoms different illnesses were diagnosed

46
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Neural correlates example

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Brain scanning techniques

Positive correlation the superior temporal gyrus and auditory hallucinations

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Evidence that brains are different - neural correlates

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Torres - ventricles in schizo are 15% larger than those without

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