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19 Cards in this Set
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Delusions
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False belief about reality maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary.
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Halluciantions
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False perceptions such as things seen or heard that are no real or present.
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Positive symtops
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symptoms that are characterized by something being added to normal behavior or experience. includes delusions, hallucinations, motor agitation and marked emotional turmoil.
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Negative symptoms
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Symptoms that reflect an absence or deficit in normal functioning. EX Blunted affect, social withdrawl.
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Schizophrenia
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Disorder characterized by hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior as well as problems in self-care and general function.
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Schizophrenia, paranoid type
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type of schizophrenia in which a person is increasingly suspicious, has severe difficulties in interpersonal relationships and experiences absurd, illogical, and often changing delusions.
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Schizophrenia, disorganized type
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Thype of schizophrenia tha ussually begins at an earlier age and represents a more severe disintegration of the personality than in other types of schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia, catatonic type
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type of schizophrenia in which the central feature is pronounced motor symptoms, of either an excite or stupurous type, which sometimes makes for difficulty in differentiating this condition from a psychotic mood disorder.
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Schizophrenia, undifferentiated type
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type of schizophrenia in which the person meets the usual criteria for being schizophrenic, including; delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder and bizare behavior, does not clearly fit into one of the subtypes bacause of a mixed symptom picture.
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Schizophrenia, residual type
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Diagnostic category used for people who have expirienced a schizophrenic episode from which they have recovered enough not to show prominent symptoms but are still manifesting some mild sings of their past disorder.
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Schizoaffective disorder
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Form of psychotic disorder in which the symptoms of schizophrenia co-occur with symptoms of a mood disorder.
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Schizophreniform Disorder
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Category of schizophrenic like psychosis less than 6 months in duration.
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Delussional disorder
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Nurturing, giving voice to, and sometimes taking action on beliefs that are considered completly false by others.
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Brief psychotic disorder
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Brief episode, lasting a month or less, of otherwise uncomplicated delusional thinking.
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Share psychotic disorder
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Psychosis in which two or more people develop persistent, interlocking delusional ideas.
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Dopamine
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Neurotransmiter from the catecholomine family that is initially synthesized from thyrosine.
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Dopamine hypothesis
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Hypothesis that schizophrenia is the result of an excess of dopamine activity at certain synaptic sites.
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Expressed Emotion (EE)
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Type of negative communication involving excesive critisim and emotional overinvolvement directed at the patient by family members.
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Cognitive Remediation
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Training efforts designed to help patients improve their neurocognitive skills.
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