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| People who meet the diagnostic criteria for _____ exhibit symptoms that represent impairments across a broad array of cognitive, perceptual, and interpersonal functions. These symptoms can be roughly divided into three types. _____ include _____ and _____. _____ include _____, alogia, _____, and social withdrawal. Symptoms of disorganization include verbal communication problems and disorganized behavior. |
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| schizophrenia, Positive symptoms, hallucinations, delusions, Negative symptoms, diminished emotional expression, avolition |
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| Patients from families that are high in _____ are more likely to relapse than those from low EE families. Expressed emotion is the product of an ongoing interaction between patients and their families, with patterns of influence flowing in both directions. |
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| The evidence regarding etiology supports a diathesis-stress model. It should be possible to develop _____ that can identify individuals who possess the genetic predisposition to the disorder. Promising research in this area is concerned with a broad range of possibilities, including laboratory measures of working memory and smooth-pursuit eye-tracking movements. |
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| the inability to experience pleasure. In contrast to blunted affect, which refers to the lack of outward expression, anhedonia is a lack of positive subjective feelings |
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| various forms of medication that have a beneficial effect on positive symptoms (hallucinations and delusions) of psychosis and psychotic disorganization (e.g., disorganized speech). The effect of first generation antipsychotic drugs depends largely on the blockade of receptors in dopamine pathways in the brain. Second-generation antipsychotics have a much broader effect on different neurotransmitters. All antipsychotic drugs have negative side effects, including motor side effects such as tardive dyskinesia |
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| a psychological state characterized by general lack of drive or motivation to pursue meaningful goals. One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may have little interest in social or occupational activities |
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| a diagnostic category in DSM-5 that includes people who exhibit psychotic symptoms for at least one day but no more than one month. After the symptoms are resolved, the person returns to the same level of functioning that had been achieved prior to the psychotic episode |
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| obviously false and idiosyncratic beliefs that are rigidly held in spite of their preposterous nature |
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| describes persons who do not meet the full symptomatic criteria for schizophrenia, but who are preoccupied for at least one month with delusions that are not bizarre |
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| (also known as blunted affect) a flattening or restriction of the person's nonverbal display of emotional responses. Blunted patients fail to exhibit signs of emotion or feeling. One of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| diminished emotional expression |
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| (also known as formal thought disorder) severe disruptions of verbal communication, involving the form of the person's speech |
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| a concept that refers to a collection of negative or intrusive attitudes sometimes displayed by relatives of patients who are being treated for a disorder |
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| a perceptual experience in the absence of external stimulation, such as hearing voices that aren't really there |
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| (of schizophrenia) include flat or blunted affect, avolition, alogia, and anhedonia |
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| (of schizophrenia) include hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech, inappropriate affect, and disorganized behavior |
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| precedes the active phase of schizophrenia and is marked by an obvious deterioration in role functioning. Prodromal signs and symptoms are less dramatic than those seen during the active phase of the disorder |
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| a disorder defined by a period of disturbance during which the symptoms of schizophrenia partially overlap with a major depressive episode or a manic episode |
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| a type of (or group of) psychotic disorders characterized by positive and negative symptoms and associated with a deterioration in role functioning. The term was originally coined by Eugen Bleuler to describe the splitting of mental associations, which he believed to be the fundamental disturbance in schizophrenia (previously known as dementia praecox) |
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| a specific measure, such as a biochemical assay or a psychological test, that might be useful in identifying people who are vulnerable to a disorder such as schizophrenia |
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