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| a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behaviour: disorder thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affects, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity |
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| excesses or distortions such as disorganized speech, hallucinations, and delusions |
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| problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that a listener can understand (incoherent) |
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| Loose associations/derailment |
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| person may be more successful in communicating with a listener but has difficulty sticking to one topic. They drift off on a train of associations evoked by an idea from the past |
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| beliefs held contrary to reality |
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| sensory experiences in the absence of any stimulation from the environment |
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| behavioural deficits; avolition, alogia, anhedonia, flat affect, and asociality. |
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| lack of energy and a seeming absence of interest in or an inability to persist in what are usually routine activities |
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| poverty of speech (sheer amount of speech is greatly reduced) or poverty of content of speech (amount of discourse is inadequate) |
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| inability to experience pleasure |
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| virtually no stimulus can elicit an emotional response |
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| severely impaired social relationships |
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| clients adopt unusual postures and maintain them for very long periods of time |
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| whereby another person can move the persons’ limbs into strange positions that they maintain for extended periods |
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| emotional responses of individuals is out of context |
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| Disorganized Schizophrenia |
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| speech is disorganized and difficult for a listener to follow; may have flat affect or experience constant shifts of emotion |
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| clients typically alternate between catatonic immobility and wild excitement, but one may predominate |
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| key to this diagnosis is the presence of prominent delusions |
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| Undifferentiated Schizophrenia |
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| applies to people who meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia but not the criteria for any of the 3 subtypes |
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| applies to people who meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia but not the criteria for any of the 3 subtypes |
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| dopamine receptors that are blocked by first-generation or conventional antipsychotics |
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| - Theory that schizophrenia is related to excess activity of dopamine is based principally on the knowledge that drugs effective in treating schizophrenia reduce dopamine activity |
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| stressors associated with being in a low social class may cause or contribute to the development of schizophrenia |
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| reverses the direction of causality between social class and schizophrenia. During the course of developing psychosis, people with schizophrenia may drift into poverty-ridden areas of the city may chose to move to areas where little social pressure will be brought on them |
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| supposedly cold, and dominant, conflict-inducing parent who was said to produce schizophrenia in her offspring |
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| a surgical procedure that destroys the tracts connecting the frontal lobes to the centres of the brain |
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| Biological Treatments to Schizophrenia |
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| shock and psychosurgery, drug treatments - first-generation and second-generation antipsychotic drugs |
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| mouth muscles involuntarily make sucking, lip-smacking and chin-wagging motions |
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| Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia |
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| Social skills training, family therapy, CBT, cognitive enhancement therapy |
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| Cognitive Enhancement Therapy |
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| a computer-based training in attention, memory and problem-solving, as well as social-cognitive skills |
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