Schizophrenia + Pyschosis Flashcards
what is psychosis?
an inability to distinguish between symptoms of hallucination, delusion and disordered thinking from reality
hallucinations can be?
auditory visual tactile olfactory gustatory
what is a delusion?
an unshakeable idea or belief which is out of keeping with the persons’s social and cultural background
examples of delusion?
grandiose
paranoid
hypochondriacal
self-referential
what is schizophrenia?
a severe mental illness affecting thinking, emotion and behaviour
who gets schizophrenia?
15-35
equal in gender
positive symptoms in schizophrenia?
hallucinations
delusions
disordered thinking
negative symptoms in schizophrenia?
apathy
lack of interest
lack of emotions
genetics in schizophrenia? (3)
neuregulin
dysbindin
di george syndrom
neurochemistry in schizophrenia? (3)
dopamine hypothesis
glutatmate
GABA
psychological theories in schizophrenia?
Jung’s Concept of Collective Unconscious
Conrad use of Gestalt Psychology
treatment for resistant schizophrenia?
clozapine
what are the principal illnesses?
delirium, schizophrenia and affective psychoses
