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Neuro/Psych-Psychopath
Schizophrenia
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Psychology
Graduate
01/12/2011

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Term
What is the prevailence of schizophrenia worldwide
Definition
about 1% of the population
Term
What are the criteria for schizophrenia diagnosis?
Definition

+ and - symptoms for 1 month

Ongoing problems for 6 months

Social/ Occupational Dysfunction

Exclude:

Schizoaffective disorder

Mood disorders

Substance abuse

General medical conditions

Term
What are the positive symptoms seen in Shizophrenia
Definition

Delusions

Halluciantions

Disorganization

Catatonic

Term
What are some negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Definition

Anhedonia

Flattened Affect

Alogia: Decreased spontaneous speech

Avolition: Loss of ability to initiate goal directed behavior

Asociality

Attention Disturbance

Term
What is the differential of schizophrenia
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

Term
What are the subtypes of Schizophrenia
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

Term
When does schizophrenia typically onset and what sex has an earlier onset?
Definition

late teens, early twenties

Men have earlier onset

Term
What are the proposed etiologies of schizophrenia
Definition

Dopamine Hypothesis

Genetics(chromosome 6 maybe)

Poor Parenting

Advanced parental age

Low Socioeconomic status

Seasonal births(Spring and Winter)

Term
What are some characteristic neuroanatomic features of schizophrenics
Definition

Ventricular enlargement

Cerebellar atrophy

Frontal cortex and Temporal decrease

Term
What subtype of schizophrenia has a late onset, early onset, and which has a better prognosis
Definition

Early: Disorganized 

Late: Paranoid

Better Prognosis: Paranoid

Term
What are the phases of schizophrenia
Definition

Prodromal

Active

Residual with Acute Exacerbations

Term
What time of the year are more schizophrenics born
Definition
winter and spring
Term
Blueler's Characteristics of Schizophrenia
Definition

Autism(Social Indifference)

Ambivalence(Unable to make Decisions)

Loosening of Associations

Affect Disturbances

Term
What is schizoaffective disorder
Definition
Mood disorder with 2 weeks of positive and negative symptoms without mood symptoms
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