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alogia
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negative symptom in schizo marked by poverty of speech and of speech content
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anhedonia
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neg symptom in schizo where indiv is unable to feel pleasure
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antipsychotic drugs
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psychoactive drugs such as Thorazine that reduce psychotic symptoms but have long term side effects resembling symptoms of neurological diseases
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asociality
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a neg symptom of schizo marked by an inability to form close relationships and to feel intimacy
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catatonic imobility
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a fixity of posture sometimes grotesque, maintained for long periods with accompanying muscular ridigity, trancelike state of consciousness and waxy flexibility
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avolition
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a negative symptom in schizo where the indiv lacks interest and drive
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catatonic schizo
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a subtype of schizo whose primary symptoms alternate between stuperous immobility and excited agitation
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delusional disorder
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disorder where indiv has persistent persecutory delusions or delusions of jealousy and is very often contentious but has no thought disorder or hallucinations
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delusional jealousy
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unfounded conviction that one's mate is unfaithful; the indiv may collect small bits of "evidence" to justify the delusion
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delusion
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beliefs contrary to reality, firmly held in spite of evidence to the contrary; common in paranoid disorders; of control- blief that 1 is being manipulated by some external force such as radar, tv, or a creature from outer space; of grandeur or belief that 1 is an especially important or powerful person; of persecution belief that one is being plotted against or oppressed by others
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dementia praecox
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an older term for schizo chosen to describe what was believed to be an incurable and progressive deterioation of mental functioning beginning in adolescence
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derailment
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speech problems where the patient maybe more successfl in communicating with a listener but has difficulty sticking to 1 topic
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disorganized speech
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speech found in schizo that is marked by problems in the org of ideas and in speaking so that others can understand
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disorganized schizo
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in this subtype of schizo the person has diffuse and regressive symptoms; the indiv is given to silliness, facial grimaces, and inconsequential rituals and has constantly changeable moods and poor hygiene; few remissions and eventually considerable deterioration- formly called hebephronia
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dopamine theory
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in literature on schizo the amount of hostility and criticism directed from other people to the patient; usually with in a family
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expressed emotion (EE)
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in literature on schizo, the amount of hostility and criticism directed from other people to the patient, usually with in the family
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flat affect
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a deviation in emo response wherein virutally no emo is expressed whatever the stimulus emoitional expressiveness is blunted or a lack of expression and muscle tone is noted in the face
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gradiose delusions
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found in paranoid schizo, delusional disorder and mania an exaggerated sense of one's importance, power, knowledge, or identity
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hallucinations
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perceptions in any sensory modality without relevant and adequate external stimuli
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ideas of reference
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delusional thinking that reads personal sig into seemingly trivial remarks and activities of others and completely unrelated events
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inappropriate affect
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emo repsonse that are out of context such as laughter when hearing sad news
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labeling theory
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the gneral view that serious psychopathology such as schizo is caused by society's reactions to unusual behavior
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loose associations (derailment)
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in schizo an aspect of thought disorder where in the patient has difficulty sitcking to 1 topic and drifts off on a train of associations evoked by an idea from the past
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negative symptoms
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behavioral deficits in schizo such as flat effect and apathy
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paranoid schizo
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type of schizo where the patient has numerous systematized delusions as well as hallucinations and ideas of reference. he or she may also be agitated, angry, argumentative, and sometimes violent
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positive symptoms
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in schizo behavioral excesses such as hallucinations and bizarre behavior
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prefrontal lobotomy
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a surgical procedure that destroys the tracts connecting the frontal lobes to lower centers of the brain; once believed to be effective treatment for schizo
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residual schizo
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diagnosis given to patients who have had an episode of schizo but who presently show no psychotic symptoms though signs of the disorder do exist
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schizophrenia
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aa group of psychotic disorders characterized by major disturbances in thought, emo, and behavior; disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically related; faulty perception and attention; bizarre disturbnaces in motor activity; flat or inappropriate emo and reduced tolerance from stress in interpersonal relations. patient withdraws from people and reality often into a fantasy life of delusions and hallucination
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schizophrenogenic mother
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cold dominant conflict inducing mom formerly believed to cause schizo in her child
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social selection theory
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an attempt to explain the correlation between social class and schizo by proposing that people with schizo mave down in social status
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sociogenic hypothesis
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generally an idea that seeks causes in social conditions for ex that being in a low social class can cause 1 to be schizo
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thought disorder
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a symptom of schizo evidenced by problems such as incoherence, loose associations, poverty of speech, and poverty of the content of speech
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undifferentiated schizo
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diagnosis given for patients whose symptoms do not fit any listed category or meet the criteria for more than 1 subtype
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waxy flexibility
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an aspect of catatonic immobility in which the patients limbcs can be moved in a variety of positions and maintained that way for unusually long periods of time
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