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| What are positive symptoms of Schizophrenia? |
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Definition
Active or excess of normal thought, emotion, behavior
Hallucinations: experience sensory events without environmental input; can involve all senses
Delusions: obvious misrepresentations of
reality
l Types: grandiose, persecutory, reference
erotomanic, thought broadcasting |
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| What are negative symptoms of Schizophrenia? |
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Definition
Absence or insufficiency of normal thought, emotion, behavior
Avolition: apathy, lack of initiation and persistence
Alogia: relative absence of speech
Anhedonia: lack of pleasure, indifference
Asociality: minimal interest in socializing
Restricted Affect: little expressed emotion |
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| What are disorganized symptoms of Schizophrenia? |
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Definition
Thought and speech disturbance
Tangentiality: going off on a tangent
Loose associations or Cognitive
Slippage: conversation in unrelated
directions or illogical & incoherent
speech “word salad”
Neologisms
Echolalia
Behavior and motor disturbance
Inappropriate emotional affect
Silliness
Unpredictable agitation
Echopraxia
Catatonia |
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| or Cognitive Slippage: conversation in unrelated directions or illogical & incoherent speech “word salad” |
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| relative absence of speech |
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| apathy, lack of initiation and persistence |
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Term
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Definition
1+ of the following for 1-29 days only:
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
Some impairment
Sudden onset, good prognosis, return to
premorbid functioning |
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Term
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Definition
2+ of the following 30+ days but <6 months:
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms
Some impairment
Good prognosis, 30% no more episodes |
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Term
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Definition
2+ of the following for a 1+ month period:
Delusions
Hallucinations
Disorganized speech
Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior
Negative symptoms v Social/occupational/academic impairment v Continuous sx for 6+ months |
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Term
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Definition
Schizophrenia and a mood disorder
Delusions or hallucinations for 2+ weeks
Both disorders can be seen independent of one another but overlap
Prognosis is similar for people with schizophrenia
Do not tend to get better on their own |
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| Believe they are grander (God) |
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| paranoid, being persecuted or people are after them |
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| something is there but twist the meaning of it (see signs) |
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| believe their thoughts are being broadcasted to the rest of us |
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| someone (usually famous) is in love with them |
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| Treatment of Schizophrenia |
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Definition
Medication
Inpatient/Outpatient Cog-Beh Therapy
Vocational Rehabilitation |
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Term
| Most common type of hallucination with schizophrenia |
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Definition
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Term
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| inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage. |
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Definition
| a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements of the face and jaw. |
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Term
| the rights of psychiatric patients |
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Definition
v To treatment
v To least restrictive treatment
v To refuse treatment (Rx, psychosurgery)
v To dignity & humane care
v To confidentiality
v To be free from harm (restraint, abuse,
isolation, neglect) |
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Definition
Tarasoff vs. U.C. Regents
v Providers have duty to warn
potential victims (& police)
v When in doubt…CONSULT ! |
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Term
| Neurocognitive Disorder due to Traumatic Brain Injury: diagnosis, causes |
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Definition
v Head/Brain injury occurs
v Loss of consciousness
v Post-trauma amnesia
v Disorientation and confused
v Neurological signs
v Sx are a result of head injury
v Sx cause impairment (social,
occupational, interpersonal) |
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Term
| Definition of the insanity defense |
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Definition
Insanity Defense Plea = A legal
argument
– not guilty because don’t know
difference between right & wrong at
time of crime
– defendant sent to a treatment facility
within prison (not general pop)
– diagnosis of a disorder is not the
same as insanity |
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Term
| Criteria for involuntary confinement to a psychiatric hospital |
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Definition
1. Harm to oneself
2. Harm to another person
3. Gravely disabled |
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Term
| Duration of involuntary confinement |
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Definition
v Assessment prior to hospitalization
v Who can admit the patient?
v Up to 72 hours (5150)
v Reassess, then up to14 more days
(5250) |
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Term
| Who can admit someone to confinement and who can discharge the person? |
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Definition
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Term
| General findings about mental illness and dangerousness to society |
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Definition
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| Requirements for being considered competent to stand trial |
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Definition
v Requirements for Competence
– Understanding of legal charges
– Ability to assist in one’s defense
– Essential for trial or legal processes
– Burden of proof is on the defense |
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Term
| Definitive method for diagnosing Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer’s Disease |
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Definition
| Autopsy necessary for definitive diagnosis |
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| Neurocognitive Disorder due to Alzheimer’s Disease: causes, survival rate; treatment (in general) |
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Definition
v Range of Cognitive Deficits
– agnosia: failure to recognize & name objects
– aphasia: language disturbance
– apraxia: impaired motor functioning
↓ executive functioning: planning, organizing, sequences, abstract
v Onset 65+ years; 5 million Americans
v May also have agitation, confusion, combativeness, depression, anxiety
v“Sundowner syndrome”
v Average survival = 8 years v Equally in men & women
v Equal across education & social class
v Usually irreversible |
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Term
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Definition
| a neurological phenomenon associated with increased confusion and restlessness in patients with delirium or some form of dementia. |
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Term
| Viral infection hypothesis of schizophrenia |
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Definition
| One hypothesis to explain this phenomenon is that this is due to prenatal viral infection, which is more likely to occur in the winter months. It is hypothesized that viral infections occurring during the third trimester of pregnancy result in the increased risk for developing schizophrenia. |
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