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| Devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), spech, emotions and behavior. |
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| Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation. |
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| Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia |
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| People's irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm. |
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| Latin term meaning premature loss of mind; an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder's frequent appearance during adolescence. |
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| Seaparation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia. |
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| Believing that someone you know has been replaced by a double. |
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| Believing that you are dead. |
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| Motivational view of Delusions |
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| People develop stories to deal with or relieve some anxiety or stress/help them make sense of the world. |
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| Deficit view of Delusions |
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| Delusions result from rain dysfunction that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions. |
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What did SPECT studies point to as the most active area of the brain during hallucinations?
What idea does this support? |
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Broca's Area (speech area)
That people who are hallucinating are actually listening to their own thoughts. |
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| Iniability to initiate or persist in important activities (apathy) |
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| Deficiency in amount or content of speech. |
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What might flat affect indicate?
Childhood indications? |
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Difficulty expressing emotion (not necessarily lack thereof).
Children of schizophrenics who then went on to develop the disorder tended to display less positive and more negative affect in childhood. |
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| Must exhibit two or more positive, negative or disorganized symptoms for a major portion of at least one month. |
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Delusions or hallucinations, but cognitive/affect are relatively intact.
Better prognosis than other forms.
D&H have theme (grandeur/persecution...)
Stronger familial link.
May function better before/after episodes. |
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Marked disruption of speech/behavior.
Flat/inappropriate affect.
Self-absorbed.
If present D&H are fragmented, no theme.
Early onset, chronic, lacks remission as in other forms. |
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Catatonia and odd mannerisms.
Echolalia and Echopraxia.
Agitated or resistive symptoms. |
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| Meet general criteria, but do not fit neatly into another category. |
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| Schizophreniform Disorder |
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| Onset of psychotic symptoms within 4 weeks of the first noticeable change in usual behavior, confusion at the height of the spychotic episode, high functioning before the episode and absence of flat affect. |
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| Presence of mood disorder as well as psychotic symptoms for at least two weeks in the absence of prominent mood symptoms. |
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