Psyc Exam 3 Abnormal ch 10

a severe mental condition characterized by a loss of contact with reality

a false belief

• a false sensory perception
• e.g. seeing things, hearing things, tasting things

severe disorder with disorganization in thought perception and behavior

• original name for schizophrenia by Kraepelin
• disturbances of perceptual and cognitive faculties (dementia)
• early life onset (praecox) -not dementia from old age-

• symptoms including unusual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that vary in intensity, and may be responsive to treatment
• exaggerations of normal thoughts, feelings, behaviors

beliefs that someone is persecuting the patient or that the individual is a special agent/individual

belief that your thoughts are controlled by others

thoughts that have little or no connection to the next thought

ususually long pauses in speech that occur in a conversation

speech with mostly words that sounds alike rather than words that have meaning

person is awake but nonresponsive to external stimulation

condition in which parts of the body will remain frozen in a posture when positioned by another person

• behaviors, emotions, or thought processes that exist in people without a psychiatric disorder but are absent (or greatly diminished) in people with schizophrenia
• less than normal behavior, emotion, thought

diminished or immobile facial expressions and flat monotone voice that doesn't change even when discussing emotional topics

• lack of capacity for pleasure
• not feeling joy or happiness

inability to initiate or follow thought on plans

decreased quality and/or quantity of speech

slowed mental or physical activities

• visual and verbal learning and memory impairments
• can't pay attention
• decreased info processing speed
• impaired abstract reasoning

repeating verbatim what others say

schiz. that develops in childhood or adolescence usu. before 18

sudden onset of any psychotic symptom that may resolve after one day and doesn't last for more than a month

schizophrenia only it lasts less than 6 months and symptoms cause less impairment in social or occupational functioning

schizophrenia with major depressive, manic or mixed episode disorder at some point in the illness

person has nonbizarre delusion, no other psychotic symptoms and few changes in overall functioning other than behavior surrounding the delusion

• two or more people who have a close relationship share the same delusional belief
• folie a deux

theory that a cause of schizophrenia is the presence of too much dopamine in the neural synapses

weaker synaptic contacts in the brain are eliminated and stronger connections are further strengthened

describes the level of emotional involvement and critical attitudes that exist within the family of a patient with schizophrenia

same person who provides a patients genetic makeup also provides the environment in which that person lives

class of medications that block dopamine receptors at neuron receptor sites

medications that reduce positive symptoms of schiz. but produce serious side effects

neurological condition of abnormal and involuntary motor movements of the face, mouth, limbs, and trunk

• medications that effectively treat positive symptoms
• much less likely to produce tardive dyskinesia
• have some effect on negative symptoms and cognitive impairments

patient and families are educated about the idsorder in order to reduce familial destress and equip them to work effectively with the patient