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Positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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-Auditory hallucinations
-Delusions (often paranoid) |
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia
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-Social withdrawal
-Lack of self care -Blunted mood |
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Cognitive function of those with schizophrenia
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-Deficits in executive function
-Deficits in attention -Deficits in working memory (learning, reasoning, understanding) |
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Environmental causes of schizophrenia
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-Maternal infection
-nutritional inadequacy -Obstetric complications -Perinatal complications -urban birth -stressful life events -drug abuse |
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Pathology of schizophrenia
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-increased ventricles
-decreased hippocampus size -hypofrontalilty -decreased number of neurons -disorientation and abnormal grouping of neurons -losses in some GABA neurons in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex -dopamine and serotonin involvement |
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treatment of schizophrenia
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no cure- treatment is aimed at reducing symptoms
Antipsychotics -dopamine D2 and serotonin antagonism >only really work on the positive symptoms |
