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Define Schizophrenia?
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a group of disorders characterized by severely impaired cognitive processes, personality disintegration, affective disturbances, and social withdrawal.
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Lifetime Prevalence rate of schizophrenia?
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1 percent
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Dementia Praecox?
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insanity at an early age
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Eugen Bleuler believed in the 4 A's what are they?
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Autism, associations, affect, ambivalence
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DSM-I and DSM-II focused on what?
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Bleuler's four
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What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?
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delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, and bizarre behavior
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What are positive symptoms?
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reflect excess of normal functions and they are present during active phase, also disappear after treatment.
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What are negative symptoms?
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inferior premorbid social functioning
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What is a flat affect?
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little or no emotion in situations in which strong reactions are expected.
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what is alogia?
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no meaningful speech
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what is avolition?
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no action or no goals
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Suicide rate for schizophrenia?
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11 percent
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what are delusions?
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false personal beliefs that are firmly held despite evidence
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what is delusions of grandeur?
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belief that a person is famous
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what is delusions of control?
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belief that other things are influencing them
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what is delusions of thought broadcasting?
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others can hear you
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define delusions of persecution?
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others are trying to kill you
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define delusions of reference?
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belief that person is center of attention
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define thought withdrawal?
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belief that thoughts are being removed
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define hallucinations?
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sensory perceptions not directly related to environmental stimuli
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What is the difference between hallucinations and delusions?
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hallucinations are false sensory
delusions are false intellectual |
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define pathognomonic?
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not specifically distinctive to this disorder; Hallucinations
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what kind of hallucinations are most common?
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auditory
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4 strategies for getting rid of voices?
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distraction, ignoring, selective listening, setting limits
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what is a primary characteristic of schizophrenia?
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disordered thinking
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define loosening of associations?
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shifting from topic to topic
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