Abnormal Psychology Chapter 13

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Schizophrenia

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Is a severe form of abnormal behavior that encompasses what most of us have come to know as "Madness"

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Prodromal phase

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Precedes the active phase and is marked by an obvious deterioration in real functioning as a student, employee, or homemaker.

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Positive symptoms

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Also called psychotic symptoms, include hallucinations and delusions

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Negative symptoms

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Include characteristics such as lack of initiative, social withdrawal, and deficits in emotional responding

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Hallucinations

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Or sensory experiences that are not caused by actual external stimuli.

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Delusions

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Idiosyncratic beliefs that are rigidly held in spite of their Preposterous nature.

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Diminished emotional expression

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Also known as blunted affect is a flattening or restriction of the person's non-verbal display of emotional responses. Blunted patients fail to exhibit signs of emotion or feeling. One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

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Anhedonia

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The inability to experience pleasure. In contrast you blunted affect which refers to the lack of outward expression, anhedonia is a lack of positive subjective feelings.

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Avolition

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A psychological State characterized by General lack of drive or motivation to pursue meaningful goals. Of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may have little interest in Social or occupational activities.

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Disorganized speech

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(Also known as formal thought disorder) severe disruptions of verbal communication, involving the form of the person's speech.

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Delusional disorder

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Describes persons who do not meet the full symptomatic criteria for schizophrenia, but who are pre-occupied for at least one month with delusions that are not bizarre

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Brief psychotic disorder

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A diagnostic category in DSM-5 that includes people who exhibit psychotic symptoms for at least one day but no more than one month. After the symptoms are resolved, the person returns to the same level of functioning that had been achieved prior to the psychotic episode.

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Schizoaffective disorder

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A disorder defined by a period of disturbance during which the symptoms of schizophrenia partially overlap with a major depressive episode or a manic episode.

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Expressed emotion

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A concept that refers to a collection of negative or intrusive attitudes sometimes displayed by relatives of patients who are being treated for a disorder. If at least one of a patient's relatives is hostile critical or emotionally over-involved the family environment typically is considered high in expressed emotion.

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Vulnerability marker

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A specific measure, such as a biochemical assay or a psychological test, that might be useful in identifying people who are vulnerable to a disorder such as schizophrenia.

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Various forms of medication that have a beneficial effect on positive symptoms ( hallucinations and delusions) of psychosis and psychotic disorganization (e.g., disorganized speech). The effect of first-generation antipsychotic drugs depends largely on the blockade of receptors and dopamine Pathways in the brain. Second generation antipsychotics have a much broader effect on different neurotransmitters. All antipsychotic drugs have a negative side effects, including motor side effects such as tardive dyskinesia.