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| a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disorder |
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| disturbances in thought, self-awareness, perception, affect, volition, and social interaction |
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| people with __________ sometimes hear voices others don't hear, believe that others are broadcasting their though to the world, or become convinced that other are plotting to harm them |
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dementia praecox
(original definition of schizophrenia) |
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| a group of psychoses characterized by a distinct cognitive process and early onset - dementia of the young |
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| chronic cognitive and social impairment at a later age |
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schizophrenia
("split mind") |
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| produces a severe fragmentation of thinking and personality |
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| a loss of contact with reality |
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schizophrenia affects:
a. men more than women
b. women more than men
c. men and women equally |
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clinical onset of schizophrenia occurs in:
a. adolescence
b. early adulthood
c. elderly
d. a & b
e. none of the above |
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| characterized by a lifetime of disability and unremitting impairments in social and occupational functioning |
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| creates a substantial emotional and economic burden on individuals with the illness, their families, and society |
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| long considered the most chronic, debilitating and costly mental illness |
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| positive symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder |
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| negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| decreased motivation, diminished emotional expression |
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| impairments in executive function, attention, certain types of memory |
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-prevalent in schizophrenia
-present in individuals with genetic risk
-precede the onset of pyschosis
-predictor of long-term outcome
-persistent during illness |
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| extreme inactivity or activity that's disconnect from their environment or encounters with other people that last for minutes or up to hours |
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| hebephrenic schizophrenia |
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| disorganized thinking, grossly disorganized behavior, and absent or inappropriate emotional expression that significantly disrupts a person's ability to function in regular daily activities and interactions with other people |
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| genetics loads the gun, environment pulls trigger |
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| a "two-hit" hypothesis about schizophrenia |
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| delusions of grandeur or persecution, auditory hallucinations |
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| cases not meeting other subtype criteria |
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| options that need to be ruled out before diagnosing schizophrenia |
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-underlying medical conditions
+HIV, syphilis, brain damage
-mental retardation
-other mental disorders with psychosis
-non-diagnosable or co-morbidity with mood disorder = "schizoaffective"
-drug abuse |
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-patients appear "high"
-not causal
-psychoactive drugs are thought to help "unmask"
-patients are smokers |
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| most common substance of abuse in schizophrenia |
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| withdrawal from this substance worsens symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| abnormally low activity in their frontal cortex |
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| schizophrenia environmental risk factors |
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| gestational and birth complications, stressful childhood events, and cannabis use during adolescence |
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