week 4.1 Flashcards
schizophrenia
Psychosis defined by abnormalities in perception, content of thought processes, and extreme withdrawal of one’s interest from individuals and outside world
Psychosis
State in which individual experiences, hallucinations, delusions, or disorganized, thoughts, speech, and behavior
Who is more likely to get schizophrenia?
males
what are the age on sets for male and females?
Males, 15–25
Females, 25–35
Rare younger than 10 and older than 40
positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disorganized behavior and speech
Loose associations
Tangentiality
Incoherent/illogical speech
Pressured speech
hallucinations
Perceptual experiences that occur without actual external sensory stimuli
Can occur in all senses
Delusions
erroneous fixed beliefs that cannot be changed by reasonable argument
grandiose delusions
Exceptional, powers, wealth, or skills
nihilistic delusion
One is dead with impending disaster
persecutory delusion
They are being watched and plotted against
somatic delusion
Abnormality in body function or structure
referential delusion
TV or song lyrics are directed at that person
thought withdrawal
Blames, poor memory, on thoughts being stolen from somebody
thought insertion
Complaints of disturbed thoughts being sent by somebody
circumstantiality
Extremely detailed and lengthy about topic that eventually gets to the point
tangentiality
Extremely detailed and lengthy about topic, but does not get to the point
Flight of ideas
Topic changes repeatedly with superficial associations
Echolalia
Repetition of another’s words
Clang association’s
Repetition of words, similar and sound, but not in meaning
neologisms
Made up words only understood by patient
Hypervigilance
Sustained attention to external stimuli
Ambivalence
Can’t decide, stuck between two decisions
avolition
Inability to complete tasks
alogia
Lack of verbal responses, unable to elaborate
anosognosia
Inability to realize they are ill
echopraxia
Involuntary imitation of others movements
extra pyramidical symptoms
Pseudo Parkinson’s
Akathisia
Acute dystonia
Tardive dyskinesia
symptoms of acute dystonia
Torticollis – painful spasm of muscle
opisthotonos- Head/Heels arch back
oculogyric crisis- eyes roll backwards
tardive dyskinesia
involuntary permanent movement disorder, long term
affects mouth, tongue protrudes
Neuro malignant syndrome
Potentially fatal
More likely due to dehydration, warm, climates, and genetics
sx- muscle rigidity, labile, BP, high fever
negative symptoms
blunt/ flat affect
ambivelance
alogia
avolition
associality
