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Schizophreni Psych Exam 2- Questionsand Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Schizophrenia - Correct Answer ✅From the Greek:
- Schiz- means "split"
- Phren means "mind"
*The diagnosis of schizophrenia is commonly
MISINTERPRETED as a split personality*
A potentially devastating brain disorder that affects: "TALES"
- Thinking
- Ability to perceive reality accurately
- Language/Speech
- Emotions
- Social behavior
Schizophrenia facts - Correct Answer ✅- Devastating brain
disease that targets young people in their teens & early 20s
- Approx. 1% of US population
- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders are a group of psychotic
disorders
Psychosis - Correct Answer ✅Refers to a total inability to
recognize reality (E.g., delusions, hallucinations)
,Schizophreni Psych Exam 2- Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
**Psychosis is a SYMPTOM, not a diagnosis**
Schizophrenia clinical course - Correct Answer
✅Immediate-term course: 2 patterns
- Ongoing psychosis, never fully recovering
- Episodes of psychotic symptoms alternating w/ episodes of
relative complete recovery
Long-term course: intensity of psychosis diminishes w/ age;
disease becomes less disruptive; clients may live
independently later in life
- Many have difficulty functioning in the community
Schizophrenia Co-morbidity - Correct Answer ✅Substance
abuse disorders
Anxiety
Depression
Suicide (prior attempts)
Physical illness
Polydipsia
,Schizophreni Psych Exam 2- Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Schizophrenia etiology - Correct Answer ✅Potential
theories: Genetic, psychodynamic neurobiological theory,
Diathesis stress theory
- Brain structure abnormalities: less brain tissue & CSF, less
brain mass w/ larger ventricular areas
- Neurobiological theories (dopamine, serotonin, glutamate)
- Immunovirologic factors (viral exposure, cytokines,
pregnancy)
Biologic theories - Correct Answer ✅- Genetic factors
(polygenic)
- Neuroanatomic & neurochemical factors; dopamine excess,
serotonin modulation of dopamine
- Immunovirologic factors: infections in pregnant women
(influenza, respiratory)
Psychologic & Environmental factors - Correct Answer ✅-
Prenatal (pregnancy, birth complications)
- Psychologic (developmental, family stress)
- Environmental stressors (social adversity, chronic poverty,
growing up in high crime areas or in a foreign culture)
, Schizophreni Psych Exam 2- Questions
and Answers (Latest Update 2024)
Schizophrenia Evidence-based data - Correct Answer
✅EBD confirms neurobiologic, anatomic, nongenetic findings
to support the premise that schizophrenia IS a neurologic
disease
- Numerous brain imaging techniques provide substantial
evidence that some people w/ schizophrenia have structural
brain abnormalities (CT, MRI, fMRI, PET)
Schizophrenia brain anatomy - Correct Answer ✅- Smaller
brains, less grey matter
- Enlarged ventricles, the spaces of fluid in the brain; less
brain mass!
- Actual brain damage
- Higher density of dopamine receptors
Schizophrenia DSM-5 - Correct Answer ✅5 items:
1. Delusions
2. Hallucinations
3. Disorganized speech
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