Sz Symptoms & Features

Question 1

How many symptoms needed for sz?

Answer 1

• 2 or more
• At least a month
• One must be delusions/hallucinations

Question 2

Disorganised behaviour examples

Answer 2

• catatonia
• “flattened” emotions
• inappropriate emotional responses

Question 3

Disorganised thoughts/speech examples

Answer 3

• thought insertion
• thought withdrawal

Question 4

Negative symptoms of sz

Answer 4

• alogia (poverty of speech)
• loss of avolition (motivation)
• “flattened” effect

Question 5

Features of sz

Answer 5

• <1% have chance of getting it
• Episodes of psychosis usually late adolescence - mid-30s (males sometimes earlier
• People w earlier psychosis usually have worse prognosis (last longer & more severe)
• 50% of people w sz have symptoms that come & go