Week 6

Question 1

Which six factors are named for more psychosis in cities?

Answer 1

Question 2

What does this graph indicate?

Answer 2

the risk of getting a psychosis is related to the amount of thc and the frequency of use.

Question 3

What is the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of psychosis?

Answer 3

psychosis is not caused by canabis but by the developmental problems it may cause.

Question 4

what is the rule of thumb between prevalence en heritability?

Answer 4

Question 5

What effect does the age of father have on the risk of psychosis?

Answer 5

the older, the more risk.

Question 6

What is the novo mutation hypothesis?

Answer 6

increasing age–>more mutation of genes–>more chance of mutations (errors)

Question 7

What is the selection into late fatherhood hypothesis?

Answer 7

older fathers are “the ones left” maybe for a good reason? maybe something geneticly wrong with them?

Question 8

What is the social defeat hypothesis on psychosis?

Answer 8

Question 9

Define the social causation hypothesis

Answer 9

Question 10

Define the social selection/drift hypothesis

Answer 10

Question 11

What is Dysmorphopsia?

Answer 11

Dysmorphopsia, in a broad sense, is a condition in which a person is unable to correctly perceive objects.

Question 12

What is Macropsia and what is Micropsia?

Answer 12

• macropsia: seeing your surounding bigger than it is
  micropsia seeing your surounding smaller than it is

Question 13

What is plagiopsia

Answer 13

geen rechtelijnen kunnen zien. Alles is schuin. Dit kan vanzelf weggaan in een aantal jaar.

Question 14

a lot of visual distortion is believed to be caused by malfunctioning of…..

Answer 14

coritical collums in the visual cortex–>detection of lines

Question 15

What is hyperchromatopsia?

Answer 15

colours are seen as exceptionally vivid and brilliant

Question 16

What is achromatopsia?

Answer 16

seeing no vivid colours

Question 17

What is hemiachromatopsia?

Answer 17

half visual field achromatopsia and half hyperchromatopsia

Question 18

Which centre in the visual cortex is believed to be responsible for colour?

Answer 18

V4

Question 19

What is selective sparing of colour vision

Answer 19

not being able to see: movement, shapes etc. Only coulers (can happen after carbon monoxide poisoning)

Question 20

What is the trailing phenomenon?

Answer 20

disturbance of visual motion perception of unknown origin: the subject perceives a series of discrete stationary images trailing in the wake of otherwise normally moving objects.

Question 21

What is akinetopsia?

Answer 21

not being able to see movement

Question 22

Which centre in the visual cortex is believed to be responsible for motion?

Answer 22

V5

Question 23

What is the Riddoch’s phenomenon?

Answer 23

Only being able to see movement: no collor, shape, etc.

Question 24

What is prosopometamorphopsia?

Answer 24

Seeing a person’s eye’s bigger than it really is. sometimes also of them selves in the mirror, but not always

Question 25

What is hemiprosopometamorphopsia?

Answer 25

Seeing ONE side of a person’s face bigger than it really is. sometimes also of them selves in the mirror, but not always

Question 26

What is the alice in wonderland syndrome?

Answer 26

Alice in wonderland syndrome (AIWS) describes a set of symptoms with alteration of body image.

Question 27

When diagnosing alice in wonderland syndrome, which six things are checked?

Question 28

When diagnosing alice in wonderland syndrome, which six things are checked?

Answer 28