week 7 webtutorial

Question 1

positive symptoms (schizophrenia)

Answer 1

behaviours that schizophrenia patients have more than healthy persons, such as hallucinations, delusions and disordered thoughts and speech.

Question 2

negative symptoms (schizophrenia)

Answer 2

are things people with schizophrenia have less than other people, lack of motivation, asociality and poverty of speech.

Question 3

cognitive deficits (schizophrenia)

Answer 3

include problems with sustained attention, working memory and executive functioning.

Question 4

dopamine hypothesis (schizophrenia)

Answer 4

a crucial factor that underlies schizophrenia is a dysregulation of dopaminergic activity. an excess of dopaminergic in the mesolimbic pathway is thought to be associated primarily with positive symptoms, dysregulation cause of negative symptoms.

Question 5

positive symptoms (examples schizophrenia)

Answer 5

suicidal thoughts, delusion, hallucination, disorganized thought, disorganized speech, isolation, disorganized behaviour

Question 6

negative symptoms (examples schizophrenia)

Answer 6

flat affect: decreased outward expression of emotional state, asociality

Question 7

cognitive symptoms (examples schizophrenia)

Answer 7

problems with focussing, hyperprolactinemia, anticholinergic effects.

Question 8

3 phases cycle of schizophrenia

Answer 8

• prodromal
• active
• residual

Question 9

prodromal symptoms

Answer 9

withdrawn, spend a lot of time alone, isolation

Question 10

active symptoms

Answer 10

severe symptoms, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behaviour, catatonic behaviour.

Question 11

residual symptoms

Answer 11

not being able to concentrate or becoming withdrawn again.