Term
| What is the prevailence of schizophrenia worldwide |
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Definition
| about 1% of the population |
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Term
| What are the criteria for schizophrenia diagnosis? |
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Definition
+ and - symptoms for 1 month
Ongoing problems for 6 months
Social/ Occupational Dysfunction
Exclude:
Schizoaffective disorder
Mood disorders
Substance abuse
General medical conditions |
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Term
| What are the positive symptoms seen in Shizophrenia |
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Definition
Delusions
Halluciantions
Disorganization
Catatonic |
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Term
| What are some negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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Definition
Anhedonia
Flattened Affect
Alogia: Decreased spontaneous speech
Avolition: Loss of ability to initiate goal directed behavior
Asociality
Attention Disturbance |
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Term
| What is the differential of schizophrenia |
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Definition
Schizophreniform: schizophrenic with less then 6 month duration of symptoms
Breif psychotic disorder: < 1 month of symptoms
Schizoaffective disorder: Mood disorder with a two week history of positive or negative symptoms w/o mood symptoms
Delusional Disorder: non-bizarre delusions only
Eccentric Personality disorders
Malingering |
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Term
| What are the subtypes of Schizophrenia |
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Definition
Paranoid: Delusions and Hallucination with Lack of disorganized behavior, and affective flattening
Disorganized: Disorganized speech, inappropriate affect
Catatonic: Extreme Agitation, Motor Immobility
Undifferentiated
Residual: lingering sign after recovery |
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Term
| When does schizophrenia typically onset and what sex has an earlier onset? |
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Definition
late teens, early twenties
Men have earlier onset |
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Term
| What are the proposed etiologies of schizophrenia |
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Definition
Dopamine Hypothesis
Genetics(chromosome 6 maybe)
Poor Parenting
Advanced parental age
Low Socioeconomic status
Seasonal births(Spring and Winter) |
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Term
| What are some characteristic neuroanatomic features of schizophrenics |
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Definition
Ventricular enlargement
Cerebellar atrophy
Frontal cortex and Temporal decrease |
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Term
| What subtype of schizophrenia has a late onset, early onset, and which has a better prognosis |
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Definition
Early: Disorganized
Late: Paranoid
Better Prognosis: Paranoid |
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Term
| What are the phases of schizophrenia |
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Definition
Prodromal
Active
Residual with Acute Exacerbations |
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Term
| What time of the year are more schizophrenics born |
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Definition
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Term
| Blueler's Characteristics of Schizophrenia |
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Definition
Autism(Social Indifference)
Ambivalence(Unable to make Decisions)
Loosening of Associations
Affect Disturbances |
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Term
| What is schizoaffective disorder |
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Definition
| Mood disorder with 2 weeks of positive and negative symptoms without mood symptoms |
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