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Clinical characteristics - positive |
Hallucinations- seeing/hearing something = in the absence of external stimuli Delusions - of grandeur = someone grand, or famous, or have magical powers of persecution = the belief that someone is plotting against them or being talked about by strangers |
Hallucinations, delusions. |
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Negative symptoms |
Apathy/avolition - lack of energy and goals Withdrawal/asociality - having impaired social relationships Catatonia - motionless, like a statue Echolalia - echoing or repetitive utterances of another person or copying someone else |
Apathy, Catatonia, echolalia |
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Disorganised symptoms |
Disorganised Speech - problems organising ideas into words/inappropriate in context Behaviour - inability to organise and perform daily routines Inappropriate affect - laughter/silliness out of context Flat emotions - no emotional response: face, immobile Speech, toneless Eyes, lifeless |
Speech, behaviour, inappropriate affects, flat emotions |
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Types of Sz |
Paranoid Catatonic Residual Undifferentiated Disorganised |
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Mckenna |
1996 Symptoms of Sz occur due to selective attention = poor concentration Which can be the cause for disorganised speech, behaviour etc. |
Lack of concentration |
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Frith |
Believed positive symptoms were due to having poor self monitoring. = the inability to keep up/be aware of their own actions and intentions. |
Poor self monitoring |
