Schizophrenia Vocabulary

Question 1

Psychosis

Answer 1

A syndrome of neurocognitive symptoms that impairs cognitive capacity, leading to deficits of perceptions, functioning and social relatedness

Question 2

Positive Symptoms:

Answer 2

Symptoms that commonly distance society from the patient

Ex: Hallucinations, Delusions, Disorganized Speech, Disorganized Behavior, Catatonia

Question 3

Negative Symptoms

Answer 3

Symptoms that distance the patient from society

Ex: Flat Affect, Logia, Anhedonia, Apathy, Anergia and Avolition

Question 4

Toxic Psychosis

Answer 4

The product of an underlying and untreated medical issue

Ex: Delirium

Question 5

Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 5

A mental health condition that is marked by a mix of schizophrenia symptoms such as hallucination and delusions and mood disorders symptoms such as depression, mania and hypomania

Question 6

Neurocognitive:

Answer 6

Having to do with the ability to think and reason

Question 7

Catatonia

Answer 7

Neuropsychiatric syndrome characterized by abnormal movements, behaviors and withdrawal

Question 8

Anhedonia

Answer 8

Inability to feel or express joy or pleasure (lack of pleasure)

Question 9

Alogia

Answer 9

Causes you to speak less, say fewer words or only speak in response to others (lack of speech)

Question 10

Prodromal

Answer 10

A period before the start of acute schizophrenia where a person may develop changes

a. During this period, people may display subtle differences in their behavior and experience. However, they do not yet experience the symptoms of psychosis
b. Become withdrawn and spend most of their time alone
c. Subclinical signs and symptoms that precedes the onset of psychosis

Question 11

Genomic Vulnerability

Answer 11

Refers to the inherited characteristics passed on from parents to children that make them more likely that they will develop psychosis?