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Question 1

SZ SYMPTOMS

Answer 1

• Must have two symptoms one of which must be delusions or Hallucinations
• Auditory and visual hallucinations.
• Delusions e.g., paranoid (someone is after them, is tracking their movements etc, grandiose
  (the belief they are all powerful, have magical powers, are important (e.g., royalty etc).
• Disorganised behaviour, including catatonia, little to no emotion (flat affect), inappropriate
  eomtoional responses e.g., laughing at something sad.
• Disorganised thoughts e.g., thought insertion (someone is putting thoughts in my head),
  thought withdrawal (e.g., someone is taking mythoughts).
• Negative symptoms- Alogia (poverty of speech), loss of avolition (severe lack of motivation),
  flattened affect (little to no emotion)

Question 2

SZ FEATURES

Answer 2

No disparity in the occurance and onset of schizophrenia between men and women, though
it is more closely associated with younger men. This may be due to the fact that women are
more likely to experience the onset of Schizophrenia later than men.
* Affects men at a younger age (late teens) than women (in late twenties to mid 30s)
* <1% chance of getting it (0.3-0.7%)
* Episodes of psychosis tend to appear between the ages of late adolescence and the mid-
thirties, with males having it at a slightly earlier age than females.
* People who have psychosis before late adolescence often have a worse prognosis that those
who develop it later on, with it being more severe and lasting longer.
* About 50% of people with schizophrenia have times where they have the symptoms and
times where they do not have the symptoms.