Mental Health Exam 2 - Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic
Disorders 83Questions and Answers (Latest 2024)
Psychosis - CORRECT ANSWERS state in which a person experiences
symptoms including:
- hallucinations
- delusions
- disorganized thoughts, speech, or behavior
Referential thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS
Concrete thinking - CORRECT ANSWERS
Clang association - CORRECT ANSWERS
Stilted language - CORRECT ANSWERS
Catatonic excitement - CORRECT ANSWERS
Regressed behavior - CORRECT ANSWERS
Stereotypy - CORRECT ANSWERS
Hypervigilance - CORRECT ANSWERS
Waxy flexibility - CORRECT ANSWERS
equally - CORRECT ANSWERS Schizophrenia is ___ common in men and
women.
men - CORRECT ANSWERS There is an earlier diagnosis and poorer prognosis
of schizophrenia in ___.
, Mental Health Exam 2 - Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic
Disorders 83Questions and Answers (Latest 2024)
adolescence; adulthood - CORRECT ANSWERS Onset of schizophrenia is
usually during the late ___ or early ___.
15-24 - CORRECT ANSWERS Onset age range of schizophrenia in men
25-34 - CORRECT ANSWERS Onset age range of schizophrenia in women
Schizophrenia - CORRECT ANSWERS Risk factors for ___ include:
- genetics
- environment
- first-degree biologic relatives with greater risk
lateral; third; volume - CORRECT ANSWERS Patients with schizophrenia have
larger ___ and ___ ventricles, but a smaller total brain ___.
dopamine - CORRECT ANSWERS Patients with schizophrenia have a ___
hyperactivity.
psychosocial - CORRECT ANSWERS There are no accepted ___ theories for
schizophrenia.
function - CORRECT ANSWERS Stressors that contribute to changes in brain
___ include:
- social stigma
- absence of good, affordable, supportive housing
- fragmented mental health care delivery system
anatomy - CORRECT ANSWERS CT and MRI results show brain ___.
physiology - CORRECT ANSWERS SPECT and PET results show brain ___.
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