Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Flashcards
Is the startling disorder characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions
Schizophrenia
It is a complex syndrome that inevitably has a devastating effect on the lives of the person affected and on family members.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia which comes from the combination of the Greek words for _____ and ______
skhizein (split) and phren (mind)
The term ____ has been used to characterize many unusual behaviors, it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs), and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events)
psychotic behavior
Generally refer to symptoms around distorted reality
Positive symptoms
It involves deficit in normal behavior such as areas as speech, blunted effect, and motivation
Negative symptoms
It includes rambling speech, erratic behavior, and inappropriate affect
Disorganized symptoms
The basic characteristic of madness
delusions or disorder of thought content
A mistaken belief that the person is famous or powerful
delusion of grandeur
It is the belief that others are “out to get them”
delusion of persecution
The person believes someone he or she knows has been replaced by a double
Capgras syndrome
The person believes he is dead
Cotard’s syndrome
Two reasons that explain why schizophrenics believe such improbable things:
Motivational view of delusions
Deficit view of delusions
The experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment
Hallucinations
Is the most common form experienced by people with schizophrenia. It happens when you hear voices or noises that do not exist in reality.
Auditory Hallucination
It is the inability to initiate and persist in activities. People with this symptom show little interest in performing even the most basic day-to-day functions including those associated with personal hygiene.
Avolition
It refers to the relative absence of speech.
Alogia
It is the presumed lack of pleasure.
Anhedonia
They do not show emotions when you would normally expect them to. They may stare vacantly, speak in a flat and toneless manner, and seem unaffected by things going on around them.
Affective flattening
A mild form of disconnected thought processes or loosening of associations
cognitive slippage
Going off on a tangent instead of answering a specific question
Tangentiality
changing the topic of conversation to unrelated areas
Loose association or derailment
People hold unusual postures as if they were fearful of something terrible happening if they move.
Catatonic immobility
The tendency to keep their bodies and limbs in the position they are put in by someone else.
Waxy flexibility
Historic Schizophrenia Subtypes (3)
Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic
A schizophrenia subtype that includes delusions of grandeur or persecution
Paranoid
A schizophrenia subtype that includes hebephrenic, silly, and immature emotionality
Disorganized
Alternate immobility and excited agitation
Catatonic
A delusional subtype that is the irrational belief that one is loved by another person
Erotomanic type
A delusional subtype that involves believing in one’s inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person
Grandiose type
A delusional subtype that believes that the sexual partner is unfaithful
Jealous type
A delusional subtype that involves believing oneself or someone close is being malevolently treated in some way
Persecutory type
A delusional subtype in which a person feels afflicted by a physical defect or general medical condition
Somatic type
It is the condition in which an individual develops delusions simply as a result of a close relationship with a delusion individual
Shared psychotic disorder (folie a deux)
The presence of one or more positive symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior lasting 1 month or less
Brief Psychotic Disorder
They can be at high risk for developing schizophrenia and may be at an early stage of the disorder. These people may have some of the symptoms of schizophrenia but are aware of the troubling and bizarre nature of these symptoms.
Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome
