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What are some of the clinical features of Schizophrenia? |
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Withdrawal from reality
Emotional blunting
Disturbed thoughts and behaviors
Hallucinations and delusions |
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False perceptions (distorted senses) such as things seen or heard that in reality do not exist
(example: seeing things that aren't there such as snakes or pink elephants)
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False beliefs about reality maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary
(example: a person believing they are Napoleon Bonaparte or that they possess superhuman or magical powers) |
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What is the average age of onset of Schizophrenia in males? In females? |
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Males: age 25
Females: age 29 |
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what are the POSITIVE SYMPTOMS of schizophrenia and give some examples |
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Postive symptoms are those those actions or behaviors that are ADDED or EXAGGERATED:
Emotional turmoil
Hallucinations
Delusions |
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Define NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS of schizophrenia and give some examples |
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NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS include traits or behaviors that are LACKING:
Withdrawal from Society
Decrease in emotional expression
Decrease in communication
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What are the 5 subtypes of Schizophrenia? |
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Undifferentiated
Paranoid
Catatonic
Disorganized
Residual
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Describe "Undifferentiated Schizophrenia" |
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Patient exhibits symptoms that are suffiencient for diagnosis of schizophrenia but doesn't seem to fit into any of the other four categories (because definitive subtype symptoms may not appear immediately) |
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What is the most commonly diagnosed type of schizophrenia? |
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In which subtype of schizophrenia is the person typically more socially integrated and less withdrawn? |
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
(hey, they're talking to you and telling you how somoene's 'out to get them'" |
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What are some of the clinical features of PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA? |
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LACK OF TRUST
OVERLY SUSPICIOUS
RARELY ENGAGES IN RELATIONSHIPS
FEEL AS IF THEY'RE BEING FOLLOWED OR WATCHED
FEELINGS OF PERSECUTION OR GRANDIOSITY
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Describe the main feature of CATATONIC SCHIZOPHRENIA: |
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Stuporous (frozen) body position or holding one's self in unnormal body position for long periods of time |
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which form of schizophrenia has the worst prognosis? |
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DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA |
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Which form of schizophrenia features the greatest level of indiference to reality? |
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DISORGANIZED SCHIZOPHRENIA |
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TRUE or FALSE:
A person with disorganized schizophrenia shows symptoms later than with other types of schizophrenia |
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FALSE
A person with disorganized subtype shows symptoms EARLER than other types |
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A patient has suffered from at least one episode of schizophrenia but now only exhibits mild positive and negative symptoms and is largely treatable with medications.
What subtype of schizophrenia does this person suffer from? |
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What type of schizophrenic pattern exhibits both of the symptoms of schizophrenia as well as a sever mood disorder?
A. Schizophreniform Disorder
B. Paranoid Schizophrenia
C. Disorganized Schizophrenia
D. Schizoaffective Disorder |
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D. Schizoaffective Disorder |
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With what type of schizophrenia pattern does a patient exhibit symptoms of schizphrenia for less than six months?
A. Disorganized schizophrenia
B. Undifferentiated schizophrenia
C. Schizophreniform disorder
D. Paranoid Schizophrenia |
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C. Schizophreniform Disorder |
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A patient exhibits psychosis or delusional thinking such as paranoia or grandiosit but does not exhibit deterioration or disorganization usually asociated with schizophrenia.
A. Brief Psychotic Disorder
B. Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
C. Shared Psychotic disorder
D. Delusional Disorder |
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A person is being treated for schizophrenic disorder and then other members of the immediate family start to show the same symptoms.
This is indicated of SHARED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER.
TRUE or FALSE?
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A person sufferes a rapid onset of psychosis but it only lasts for a few days. What type of disorder is this person suffering from?
A. Delusional disorder
B. Brief Psychotic Disorder
C. Undifferentiated Psychosis
D. Acute Psychosis |
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B. Brief Psychotic Disorder |
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The causal factors of Schizophrenia are clear and well-understood.
TRUE or FALSE? |
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FALSE
Causal factors of schizophrenia are unclear. |
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The theory that a prson with schizophrenia has either too much dopamine activity at certain synaptic sites or that their receptors are super-sensitive is known as?
A. Schizophrenic Dynamics
B. Dopamine Hyperthesis
C. Psychosis Hypertension |
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B. Dopamine Hyperthesis
(HYPER = Above, Excessive) |
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TRUE or FALSE
Medications can cure psychotic symptoms |
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FALSE
Medications only arrest symptoms. It is a TREATMENT. There is no "cure". |
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TRUE or FALSE
Individual psychotherapy is effective when the patient is in a psychotic state |
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