week 4.1 Flashcards

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schizophrenia

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Psychosis defined by abnormalities in perception, content of thought processes, and extreme withdrawal of one’s interest from individuals and outside world

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Psychosis

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State in which individual experiences, hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized, thoughts, speech, and behavior

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Who is more likely to get schizophrenia?

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males

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what are the age on sets for male and females?

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Males, 15–25
Females, 25–35

Rare younger than 10 and older than 40

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positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized behavior and speech
Loose associations
Tangentiality
Incoherent/illogical speech
Pressured speech

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hallucinations

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Perceptual experiences that occur without actual external sensory stimuli

Can occur in all senses

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Delusions

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erroneous fixed beliefs that cannot be changed by reasonable argument

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grandiose delusions

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Exceptional, powers, wealth, or skills

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nihilistic delusion

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One is dead with impending disaster

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persecutory delusion

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They are being watched and plotted against

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somatic delusion

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Abnormality in body function or structure

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referential delusion

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TV or song lyrics are directed at that person

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thought withdrawal

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Blames, poor memory, on thoughts being stolen from somebody

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thought insertion

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Complaints of disturbed thoughts being sent by somebody

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circumstantiality

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Extremely detailed and lengthy about topic that eventually gets to the point

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tangentiality

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Extremely detailed and lengthy about topic, but does not get to the point

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Flight of ideas

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Topic changes repeatedly with superficial associations

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Echolalia

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Repetition of another’s words

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Clang association’s

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Repetition of words, similar and sound, but not in meaning

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neologisms

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Made up words only understood by patient

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Hypervigilance

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Sustained attention to external stimuli

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Ambivalence

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Can’t decide, stuck between two decisions

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avolition

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Inability to complete tasks

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alogia

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Lack of verbal responses, unable to elaborate

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anosognosia
Inability to realize they are ill
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echopraxia
Involuntary imitation of others movements
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extra pyramidical symptoms
Pseudo Parkinson’s Akathisia Acute dystonia Tardive dyskinesia
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symptoms of acute dystonia
Torticollis – painful spasm of muscle opisthotonos- Head/Heels arch back oculogyric crisis- eyes roll backwards
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tardive dyskinesia
involuntary permanent movement disorder, long term affects mouth, tongue protrudes
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Neuro malignant syndrome
Potentially fatal More likely due to dehydration, warm, climates, and genetics sx- muscle rigidity, labile, BP, high fever
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negative symptoms
blunt/ flat affect ambivelance alogia avolition associality