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level: Level 1 of Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

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level questions: Level 1 of Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders

Question	Answer
Gross departure from reality which may include hallucinations or delusions.	Psychosis
Sensory experience in the absence of sensory input.	Hallucinations
Strongly held inaccurate beliefs that persist in the face of contradictory evidence.	Delusions
A serious psychiatric disorder characterised by psychotic episodes consisting of perceptual disturbances, fixed false beliefs and disorganised thinking, communicating and behaviour. Chronic. Affective blunting and attentional impairments asocial behviour and poor motivation. (specify if with catatonia). Guarded prognosis.	Schizophrenia - clinical description
Disorder involving immobility or excited agitation. Sometimes accompanies psychotic disorders or mood disorders as well as neurological conditions.	Catatonia
Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia.	Hebephrenia
Irrational beliefs that otherwise neutral events have bearing on, or bear reference to the sufferer. All delusions, or fixed false beliefs, are at the core of paranoia. Delusional beliefs include delusions of grandeur, or extreme importance, persecution a false belief of being threatened or that others are seeking to harm the sufferer.	Paranoia
Separation among basic functions of human personality (cognition, emotion and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia.	Associative splitting
Eugene Bleuler - schizophrenia meaning "splitting of the mind". Formerly dementia praecox by Emil Kraeplin.	Nature of schizophrenia - historical
Includes delusions and hallucinations	Positive cluster of symptoms of schizophrenia
Absence of insufficiency of normal behaviour. Avolition (apathy). Alogia. Anhedonia. Flat affect.	Negative cluster of symptoms of schizophrenia
Apathy, or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities.	Avolition
Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.	Anhedonia
Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a disturbance of speech often seen in people with schizophrenia.	Alogia
Apparently emotionless demeanour (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected.	Flat affect
Confused and abnormal speech, behaviour and emotion: Disorganised speech is characterised by cognitive slippage. Tangentiality. Loose association. Disorganised affect. Disorganised behaviour.	Disorganised cluster of symptoms of schizophrenia
Illogical and incoherent speech.	Cognitive slippage
Going off on a tangent.	Tangentiality
Conversation in unrelated direction.	Loose association
Inappropriate emotional behaviour.	Disorganised affect
Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than six months. Associated with relatively good functioning. Most patients resume normal functioning. prevalence of 0.02%.	Schizophreniform disorder
Psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder (depression or manic). Psychotic symptoms must occur outside of mood disturbances. Similar prognosis as schizophrenia. Need help.	Schizoaffective disorder
Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality but no other symptoms of schizophrenia. Better prognosis than schizophrenia. affects 24-60 people per 100 000; 55% female.	Delusional disorder
Repetition or echoing of the speech of others, a normal intermediate step in learning speech skills. Involved in both autism and schizophrenia. Remember: psychopathologies are exaggerations of normal functions.	Echolalia
The involuntary imitation of the movement of another person.	echopraxia
Psychotic disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganised speech or behaviour (positive cluster) but lasting less than a month; often occurs as a reaction to a stressor.	Brief psychotic disorder
Disorder involving the onset of psychotic symptoms such as delusions (positive cluster)and hallucinations which put the person at risk of developing schizophrenia. In need of further study.	Attenuated psychosis syndrome
A period preceding an acute schizophrenic disturbance characterised by attenuated positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. 85% of the experience.	Prodromal stage
A period following resolution of an acute schizophrenic disterubance characterised by attenuated positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.	Residual stage