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NR546 WEEK 3 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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NR546 WEEK 3 TEST YOURKNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
antipsychotic meds - ✔✔✔✔primarily used for schizophrenia & psychotic
disorders
-also used as adjunctive meds for management of tx-resistant depression &
other conditions
-not curative
-decrease/control symptoms/improve quality of life
Schizophrenia - ✔✔✔✔a disturbance that must last for 6 months or longer,
including at least one month of positive symptoms or negative symptoms
-neurodevelopmental, brain disorder
-psychological condition involving chronic or repeated episodes of psychosis
cause: combination of genetics and environmental factors
DX: based on clinical interview
Schizophrenia increases the risk of: - ✔✔✔✔suicide
,homeless
jail/prison
psychosis - ✔✔✔✔set of symptoms in which a person's mental capacity,
affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and
relate to others is impaired
Hallmarks of psychosis - ✔✔✔✔Delusions and hallucinations
-often called the "positive symptoms" of psychosis
-Delusions are fixed beliefs - often bizarre - that have an inadequate rational
basis and can't be changed by rational arguments or evidence to the contrary
-Hallucinations are perceptual experiences of any sensory modality -
especially auditory - that occur without a real external stimulus, yet are vivid
and clear, just like normal perceptions, but not under voluntary control
Symptoms of psychosis: - ✔✔✔✔-hallucinations
-delusions
-disorganized speech
-disorganized behavior
-distortions of reality
-inappropriate or very strong emotions or apathy
,-negative symptoms: diminished emotional expression and decreased
motivation
perceptual distortions and motor disturbances can be associated with
_________ - ✔✔✔✔any type of psychosis.
-Perceptual distortions include being distressed by hallucinatory voices;
seeing visions; reporting hallucinations of touch, taste, or odor; or reporting
that familiar things and people seem changed.
-Motor disturbances are peculiar, rigid postures; overt signs of tension;
inappropriate grins or giggles; peculiar repetitive gestures; talking, muttering,
or mumbling to oneself; or glancing around as if hearing voices.
-paranoid psychosis, the patient has paranoid projections, hostile
belligerence, and grandiose expansiveness. often occurs in schizophrenia and
in many drug-induced psychoses
Grandiose expansiveness - ✔✔✔✔exhibiting an attitude of superiority;
hearing voices that praise and extol; believing one has unusual powers or is a
well-known personality, or that one has a divine mission, which is often seen
in schizophrenia and in manic psychosis
Psychosis can affect a person's: - ✔✔✔✔-cognition
-affective response
-communication
, -capacity to recognize reality
-ability to relate to others
_________ is a defining feature for some psychotic disorders while other
disorders may have a psychotic component - ✔✔✔✔psychosis
Diagnoses Requiring the Presence of Psychosis - ✔✔✔✔-Schizophrenia
-Substance-induced psychotic disorders
-Schizophreniform disorder
-Shizoafffective disorder
-Delusional disorder
-Brief psychotic disorder
-Psychotic disorder d/t a medical condition
Diagnoses with Psychosis as a Feature - ✔✔✔✔-Mania
-Depression
-Cognitive disorders
-Dementia
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - ✔✔✔✔-hallucinations
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