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abnormal exam 3:1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| psychosis | a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality. |
| delusion | where you see something that is really there but you misinterpret it |
| paranoid delusion | when you believe that someone is out to get you |
| thought insertion delusion | when you believe that someone has put bad thoughts in your head |
| hypnogagic hallucination | happens during first stage of sleep and early stages of sleep where the brain starts creating images |
| loose associations | TYPE OF DISORGANIZED THINKING when a person is asked to remember something you get distracted by other memories and confuse other memories for the question you are being asked |
| tangential speech | TYPES OF DISORGANIZED when you give an answer to a question that barely touches the question |
| word salad | TYPE OF DISORGANIZED THINKING when you cannot organize your sentences into grammatical phrases |
| catatonia | abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state. It may involve repetitive or purposeless overactivity, resistance to move. |
| negative symptoms of schizo | things that a schizophrenic person does that a normal person doesnt do. SYMPTOMS INCLUDE: FLAT AFFECT, ANHEDONIA, ALOGIA (lack vocab, have trouble putting into words what their feelings are—poverty of speech) |
| prodromal phase | period during which symptoms of schizophrenia are not yet prominent, but the person has begun to deteriorate from previous levels of functioning |
| active phase | when symptoms of schizo are becoming more apparent. this phase may be triggered by stress in the person's life |
| posturing | schizophrenic locks into position and cannot move—their muscles literally freeze |
| hebephrenia | a form of chronic schizophrenia involving disordered thought, inappropriate emotions, hallucinations, and bizarre behavior. |
| pseudoparkinsonism | disorder created by taking thorazine—creates symptoms of parkinson's disease as a side affect of drug. when the nuerons that create dopamine die |
| agranulocytosis | a deficiency of granulocytes in the blood, causing increased vulnerability to infection. kills immune system so if you get sick, you die |
| folie a' deux | another name for shared delusional disorder where you and another person both delusional and reinforce their own beliefs |
| hallucination | when you sense something that is not there |
| thought broascasting | when you have a bad thought that you think everyone knows about |
| reality testing | when you test to see if sensation is real. Ex. you hear a voice and then you listen harder to see if you hear it again. |
| rambling speech | TYPE OF DISORGANIZED THINKING when asked a question, person rambles about their life associated with that question |
| neologism | when you make up a word for something else, but only you understand the meaning of the word |
| clanging speech | when person with schizo rhymes there sentences based upon question asked |
| positive symptoms of schizo | hallucinations, delusions, disorganized thinking, disorganized behavior |
| anhedonia | lack of pleasure; do not feel pleasure. Associated with AVOLITION- no motivational drive to do anything |
| residual phase | when person person with schizo returns to prodromal functioning where symptoms are not yet obvious but they are beginning o deteriorate |
| remission | a temporary recovery from disease or pain |
| waxy flexibility | type of catatonic schizo where person physically freezes but you can still move their limbs |
| thorazine | type of antipsychotic drug that was accidentally discovered in 1950. used at a tranquilizer for surgery. it blocks receptor sites for dopamine. As long as it mimics the dopamine in the receptor site, the dopamine cannot be released |
| tardive dyskinesia | late developing of bad movement—it affects neurons of the face muscles and caused irregular facial movements (chewing and tongue rolling) |
| induced delusion disorder | when a typically dependent person with low self esteem becomes dependent on a delusional person. They become brainwashed by this other delusional persons beliefs and now they too believe it |
| shared delusion disorder | another name for folie a 'duex when you and another person both are delusional and reinforce each others delusions |
| paranoid schizo | most mild form of schizo where person has hallucinations and delusional thinking—hear voices, sees things, and is paranoid |
| catatonic schizo | type of movement disturbance—also form of disorganized behavior |
| disorganized schizo (hebephrenic) | when person has disorganized thoughts and inappropriate emotions(hebephrenia)—loose associations, word salad, neologisms. |
| undifferentiated schizo | NOS (not otherwise specified)-they dont meet the criteria for one specific disorder. They show symptoms of all types of schizo |
| schizoaffective disorder | person who shows symptoms of schizophrenia as well as mood/affective disorder (mania or depression). HARD TO TREAT BECAUSE DEPRESSION=LACK OF NOREPINEPHRHINE (DOPAMINE). SCHIZO IS RELATED TO TOO MUCH DOPAMINE RECEPTORS. |
| types of schizophrenia | paranoid schizo, catatonic schizo, undifferentiated schizo, disorganized schizo (hebephrenic) |
| types of delusional disorders | persecutory (paranoid), erotomanic, shared, self-induced, jealous, and grandiose |
| erotomanic delusional disorder | person believes that famous celebrity is in love with them |
| types of hallucinations | auditory, visual, olfactory, taste. kinesthetic |
| auditory hallucinations | when you hear voices that may order you to do something—sometimes things that you may not want to do (threatening demands). SCREAMING AND LAUGHTER |
| visual hallucinations | clearly see things like people, blood on walls, and skeletons. USUALLY GOES TOGETHER WITH AUDITORY |
| taste hallucinations | when you taste something really sweet or gross. ppl with OCD may brush teeth many times to get rid of taste |
| kinesthetic hallucinations | when you feel like you are moving when you are not. FEELING OF FALLING—happens when you sleep |
| prognosis of schizo | must have three or more symptoms of schizo and must show evidence of disorder for atleast 6 months (recurrent episode) |
| how does thorazine work with schizo? what does it tell about etiology of schizo? | thorazine blocks dopamine from entering receptor sites in brain. as long as thorazine is mimicking receptor sites dopamine cannot be released. It explains that its not that there is too much dopamine activity its that there are too many dopamine receptor |
| what side effects are common with phenothiazine-type drugs? why do they occur? | CREATES PSEUDOPARKINSONSONS (similar symptoms of parkinsons) AND TARDIVE DYSKINESIA (caused irregular facial movement). Does not treat negative symptoms of schizo—flat affect, anhedonia, alogia. |
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