Schizophrenia symptoms Flashcards
who does schizophrenia affect more?
affects more males than females
at what point is a male usually affected with schizophrenia?
late teens
at what point does schizophrenia affect females?
late twenties to mid 30s
how many symptoms of schizophrenia have to be present for a diagnosis? what symptoms have to be present?
2/5 along with
- reduced social functioning
- delusions or hallucinations
what are the symptoms of schizophrenia? (5)
- auditory and visual hallucinations
- delusions
- disorganized apeech or behaviour
- catatonic behaviour
- negative symptoms
what are positive symptoms?
behaviours that add to a person
how long must symptoms be present before getting a diagnosis?
1 month
what are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
- -thought insertion
- delusions of persecution
- hallucinations
- disordered thinking
- delusions of grandeur
- paranoid delusions
- movement disorders
how many subtypes of schizophrenia were there in DSM IV?
5
what were the subtypes of schizophrenia in DSM IV?
- paranoid schizophrenia
- catatonic type
- disorganised type
- undifferentiated type
- residual type
describe THOUGHT INSERTION
a person believes their own thoughts have been put there by someone else
describe MOVEMENT DISORDERS
agitated movements. repetition of movements over and over again
describe PARANOID DELUSIONS
seeing/hearing things that aren’t there
describe DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
the belief that they are in a position of power/have super powers
describe DISORDERED THINKING
when the individual finds it hard to put their thoughts into a logical sense. i.e. stop talking mid-sentence as the thought has been taken out of their head (thought blocking)
