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What is schizophrenia? |
- a severe mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired, an example of psychosis - 1% of population;men>women - symptoms interfere with everyday tasks |
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What is the classification of mental disorders? |
- process of organising symptoms into categories based on which symptoms cluster in sufferers |
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What is the ICD-10? |
The World Health Organisation's International Classification of Disease edition 10 |
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What is the DSM-5? |
American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition 5 |
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How does the classification of schizophrenia differ between ICD-10 and DSM-5? |
DSM-5: one positive symptom (delusions/hallucinations) must be present ICD-10: 2+ negative symptoms (flattened affect) must be present - ICD-10: recognises subtypes of schizophrenia |
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What are the three subtypes of schizophrenia classified by ICD-10? |
Paranoid schizophrenia: characterised by powerful delusions and hallucinations Hebephrenic schizophrenia: characterised primarily by negative symptoms Catatonic schizophrenia: disturbance to movement;suffer immobile/overractive |
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What are positive symptoms? |
- atypical symptoms experienced in addition to normal experiences. - include hallucinations and delusions |
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What are hallucinations? |
- type of positive symptom of schizophrenia - sensory experiences of stimuli that have no basis in reality/distorted perceptions of things - e.g hearing voices/seeing things that are not there |
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What are delusions? |
- type of positive symptom of schizophrenia - beliefs that have no basis in reality e.g. sufferer is someone else or is a victim of a conspiracy (being Jesus) |
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What are negative symptoms? |
- atypical experiences that represent loss of a usual experience e.g. clear thinking or 'normal' levels of motivation. - e.g. avolition/speech poverty |
