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4 main identifiers of schizophrenia |
-Broad Impairments -Delusions and Hallucinations -Disorganized Speech and Behavior -Inappropriate Emotions |
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When was schizophrenia first considered a disease? |
The mid 1800's |
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What wasschizophrenia's first incarnation? |
Dementia praecox -[deterioration][at a young age] |
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Who coinedschizophrenia's first incarnation? |
Emil Kraeplin |
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When wasschizophrenia coined as the name of the affliction? |
1911, by Eugene Bleuler |
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What are Bleuler's Four A's? |
-Association: thought disorder -Affect: emotional disturbance -Ambivalence: inability to make or follow through on descisions -Autism:idiosyncratic style of egocentric thought and behavior |
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Stages of schizophrenia |
1) Prodromal: deterioration in social and interpersonal functioning 2) Active: Full-blown disorder 3) Residual: continuing indications of distubance |
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Symptoms ofschizophrenia, Disturbances |
+perception (hallucinations) +delusions (grandeur, persecution) -thoughts (lack cohesiveness) -incomprehensible speech -emotions -odd and disturbing actions |
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Auditory hallucinations activate which area of the brain: Broca's (speech) or Wernike's (hearing) |
Broca's (speech) |
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Disorganized symptoms of schizophrenia |
-Catatonia -Disorganized speech |
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
-Flat affect: "the mask" -Avolition: "no initiative" -Alogia: "vacant speech" -Anhedonia: "no pleasure" |
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Affects ___ out of ____ people Typical age of onset: ___-___ |
1 out of 100 Ages 16-30 |
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Men and women affected equally, but _________ |
more men are affected before 45 and more women are affected after 45 |
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5 subtypes of schizophrenia |
-Paranoid -Disorganized -Catatonic -Undifferentiated -Residual |
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4 characteristics of paranoid schizophrenia |
-Delusions and hallucinations ~grandeur/persecution -intact cognition and affect -no disorganized speech -best prognosis |
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5 characteristics of disorganized schizophrenia |
-Disorganized speech -disorganized behavior -flat/inappropriate affect (hebephrenia) -Hallucinations and delusions -often chronic |
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5 characteristics of catatonic schizophrenia |
-Unusual motor behavior -waxy flexibility -echolalia (imitate speech) -echopraxia (imitate movements) -often chronic |
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4 characteristics of Undifferentiated schizophrenia |
-beginnings of breakdown -major symptoms of schizophrenia -does not meet other criteria -"wastebasket" category |
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3 characteristics of residual schizophrenia |
-one episode -some unusual symptoms -now mostly symptom free |
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11 factors associated with a more favorable prognosis |
-good premorbid functioning -acute onset -later age at onset -good insight -being female -consistent in medication usage -brief active phase symptoms -good functioning between episodes -no structural brain abnormalities -normal neurological functioning -no family history |
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Three features shared by schizophrenia-like disorders |
-Serious break with reality -Not caused by cognitive impairment -Not primarily affective |
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Schizophrenia-like disorders (3), chronological |
-Schizoaffective Disorder (comorbid), 2+ weeks -Brief Psychotic Disorder, <1 month -Schizophreniform Disorder, 1+-6 months |
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Types of delusional disorders (5) |
-Erotomanic: "of course they love me" -grandeur: "i'm so great" -Jealous -Persecutory: "Theyre after me" -Somatic: "of course i'm dying!" |
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Social/psychological warning signs of schizophrenia |
-early separation from parents -short attention span -disruptive or withdrawn behavior -emotional unpredictability -poor peer relations/solitary play |
