Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

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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

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Schizophrenia

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It is a complex syndrome that inevitably has a devastating effect on the lives of the person affected and on family members.

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Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia which comes from the combination of the Greek words for _____ and ______

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skhizein (split) and phren (mind)

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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)

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psychotic behavior

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Generally refer to symptoms around distorted reality

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Positive symptoms

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It involves deficit in normal behavior such as areas as speech, blunted effect, and motivation

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Negative symptoms

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It includes rambling speech, erratic behavior, and inappropriate affect

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Disorganized symptoms

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The basic characteristic of madness

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delusions or disorder of thought content

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A mistaken belief that the person is famous or powerful

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delusion of grandeur

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It is the belief that others are “out to get them”

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delusion of persecution

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The person believes someone he or she knows has been replaced by a double

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Capgras syndrome

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The person believes he is dead

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Cotard’s syndrome

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Two reasons that explain why schizophrenics believe such improbable things:

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Motivational view of delusions
Deficit view of delusions

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The experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment

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Hallucinations

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Is the most common form experienced by people with schizophrenia. It happens when you hear voices or noises that do not exist in reality.

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Auditory Hallucination

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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.

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Avolition

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It refers to the relative absence of speech.

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Alogia

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It is the presumed lack of pleasure.

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Anhedonia

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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.

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Affective flattening

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A mild form of disconnected thought processes or loosening of associations

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cognitive slippage

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Going off on a tangent instead of answering a specific question

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Tangentiality

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changing the topic of conversation to unrelated areas

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Loose association or derailment

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People hold unusual postures as if they were fearful of something terrible happening if they move.

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Catatonic immobility

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The tendency to keep their bodies and limbs in the position they are put in by someone else.

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Waxy flexibility

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Historic Schizophrenia Subtypes (3)

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Paranoid
Disorganized
Catatonic

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A schizophrenia subtype that includes delusions of grandeur or persecution

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Paranoid

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A schizophrenia subtype that includes hebephrenic, silly, and immature emotionality

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Disorganized

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Alternate immobility and excited agitation

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Catatonic

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A delusional subtype that is the irrational belief that one is loved by another person

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Erotomanic type

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A delusional subtype that involves believing in one’s inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person

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Grandiose type

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A delusional subtype that believes that the sexual partner is unfaithful

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Jealous type

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A delusional subtype that involves believing oneself or someone close is being malevolently treated in some way

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Persecutory type

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A delusional subtype in which a person feels afflicted by a physical defect or general medical condition

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Somatic type

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It is the condition in which an individual develops delusions simply as a result of a close relationship with a delusion individual

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Shared psychotic disorder (folie a deux)

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The presence of one or more positive symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior lasting 1 month or less

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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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.

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Attenuated Psychosis Syndrome