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12/01/2008

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People with schizophrenia may have difficulty with the FORM of thoughthorizontalin other words, their thoughts do not make sense. The observable sign of this is
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disorganized speech.
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Which of the following is a brain area that has been shown to be involved in schizophrenia?
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hippocampus
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After her last episode of schizophrenia, Jill continued to behave a bit eccentrically and she showed little emotion. Which of the following diagnoses should she be given?
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residual schizophrenia
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Which of the following is an example of a negative symptom?
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emotional unresponsiveness
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Which of the following is an example of a negative symptom of schizophrenia?
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Karen no longer socialized with her friends.
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Hallucinations are
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sensory experiences with no basis in reality.
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Enlarged brain ventricles
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suggest that there has been a loss of brain tissue.
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Moira is schizophrenic. She giggles a lot, acts silly, and talks "baby talk." She experiences frequent auditory hallucinations and bizarre delusions. Moira most likely belongs to the ________ subtype of schizophrenia.
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disorganized
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Hallucinations and delusions are the most common negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
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False
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Both of Mary's parents have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Bob has an identical twin who has schizophrenia. Who is more likely to develop schizophrenia and why?
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Bob because he has inherited the same susceptibility that his twin is expressing.
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Negative symptoms
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are characterized an absence or deficit of normal behaviors.
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Familial" does not mean the same thing as "genetic" because
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families share both genes and the environment.
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Most people with schizophrenia
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continue to show signs of illness.
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The central feature of catatonic schizophrenia is
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excited or stuporous motor symptoms.
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Disorganized schizophrenia
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highlights the thought disordered aspect of the disease.
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Which of the following best describes the person with undifferentiated schizophrenia?
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Jake, who shows bizarre behavior, delusions, and disordered speech but has normal emotions.
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DeJuan is highly suggestible and automatically obeys the commands of his brother. He sometimes stands in the same strange posture for hours despite his hands and feet becoming swollen due to immobility. Which subtype of schizophrenia does this best illustrate?
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catatonic
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People with schizophrenia may have difficulty with the FORM of thoughthorizontalin other words, their thoughts do not make sense. The observable sign of this is
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disorganized speech.
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Which of the following is an example of the most common type of hallucination seen in schizophrenia?
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Sondra tried to ignore the voices in her head.
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Most of the evidence suggests that, if schizophrenia is inherited, it
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involves a multitude of genes that work in concert.
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People with schizophrenia may have difficulty with the FORM of thoughthorizontalin other words, their thoughts do not make sense. The observable sign of this is
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disorganized speech.
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Psychosis is a striking and essential feature of schizophrenia. Psychosis means
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a significant loss of contact with reality.
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When Bleuler coined the term "schizophrenia" the kind of split he believed was central to the disorder was
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a break with reality.
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After her last episode of schizophrenia, Jill continued to behave a bit eccentrically and she showed little emotion. Which of the following diagnoses should she be given?
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residual schizophrenia
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Disorganized schizophrenia
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highlights the thought disordered aspect of the disease.
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There is a new trend to focus on dopamine receptor sensitivity rather than on dopamine itself because
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there is no strong evidence that people with schizophrenia have too much dopamine.
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Individuals with delusional disorder differ from those with schizophrenia in that
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they behave relatively normally.
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Hallucinations are
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sensory experiences with no basis in reality.
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Lori just found out that she is pregnant. Her husband's fraternal twin has schizophrenia. What is her unborn child's risk of developing schizophrenia?
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2%
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The majority of cases of schizophrenia begin in
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late adolescence or early adulthood.
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What type of hallucinations are the most common?
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auditory
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If schizophrenia were exclusively a genetic disorder,
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the concordance rate for dizygotic twins would be 100%.
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Many people with schizophrenia have enlarged brains, with brain size increasing over time.
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False
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A delusion is a belief with no basis in reality.
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True
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