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| a chronic psychotic disorder characterized by disturbed behavior, thinking, emotions, and perceptions |
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| in schizophrenia, the period of decline in functioning that precedes the first acute psychotic episode |
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| in schizophrenia, the phase that follows an acute phase, characterized by a return to the level of functioning of the prodromal phase |
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| False. Both the course of schizophrenia and its features can vary among cultures. |
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| Schizophrenia exists in the same form in every culture that has been studied. |
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| flagrant symptoms of schizophrenia, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and thought disorder |
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| behavioral deficiencies associated with schizophrenia, such as social skills deficits, social withdrawal, flattened affect, poverty of speech and thought, psychomotor retardation, and failure to experience pleasure |
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| a disturbance in thinking characterized by the breakdown of logical associations between thoughts |
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| perceptions occurring in the absence of external stimuli that become confused with reality |
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| False. Auditory, not visual, hallucinations are the most common types of hallucinations among people with schizophrenia. |
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| Visual hallucinations ("seeing things") are the most common type of hallucinations in people with schizophrenia. |
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| True. Hallucinations--perceptual experiences such as visual images, smells, and so on, in the absence of external stimulation--occur nightly in the form of dreams. |
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| It is normal for people to hallucinate nightly. |
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| the subtype of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized behavior, bizarre delusions, and vivid hallucinations |
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| the subtype of schizophrenia characterized by gross disturbances in motor activity, such as catatonic stupor |
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| the subtype of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and systemized delusions, commonly involving themes of persecution, grandeur, or jealousy |
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| False. Children of parents who both have schizophrenia have less than a 50% chance of developing the disorder. |
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| If you have two parents with schizophrenia, it's nearly certain that you will develop schizophrenia yourself. |
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| False. Scientists believe that many genes, not any one gene, are involved in complex processes that increase the likelihood that schizophrenia will develop. |
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| Scientists believe that a defect on one particular gene causes schizophrenia, but they haven't yet been able to identify the defective gene. |
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| the prediction that schizophrenia involves overactivity of dopamine transmission in the brain |
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| False. Mounting evidence points to both structural and functional abnormalities in the brains of many schizophrenia patients. |
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| Although schizophrenia is widely believed to be a brain disease, we still lack evidence of abnormal functioning in the brains of schizophrenia patients. |
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| measurable processes or mechanisms not apparent to the naked eye that explain how an organism's genetic code influences its observable characteristics or phenotypes |
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| False. Antipsychotic drugs help control the symptoms of schizophrenia but cannot cure the disorder. |
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| We now have drugs that not only treat schizophrenia but also cure it in many cases. |
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| a disorder characterized by involuntary movements of the face, mouth, neck, trunk, or extremities caused by long-term use of antipsychotic medication |
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| a psychotic disorder lasting from a day to a month that often follows exposure to a major stressor |
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| schizophreniform disorder |
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| a psychotic disorder lasting less than 6 months in duration, with features that resemble schizophrenia |
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| a type of psychosis characterized by persistent delusions, often of a paranoid nature, that do not have the bizarre quality of the type found in paranoid schizophrenia |
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| a delusional disorder characterized by the belief that one is loved by someone of high social status |
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| True. Some people do suffer from the delusion that they are loved by a famous person. They are said to have a delusional disorder, erotomanic type. |
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| Some people have delusions that they are loved by a famous person. |
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| a type of psychotic disorder in which individuals experience both severe mood disturbance and features associated with schizophrenia |
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