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| a disorder with a range of symptoms involving disturbances in content of thought, form of thought, motivation, behavior and interpersonal functioning. |
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| Eugen Bleuler's 4 a's of schizphrenia |
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1. Association : thought disorder
2. Affect : disorder of the experience and expression of emotion
3. Ambivalence : inability to follow through or make decisions
4. Autism : egocentric thought and behavior |
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| Diagnostic features of schizophrenia |
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Definition
people with this disorder experience a disturbance that lasts at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of active symptoms, including at least 2 of the following:
delusions
hallucinations
disorganized speech
disturbed or catatonic behavior
negative symptoms, such as flat effect or severe lack of emotion |
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| deeply entrenched false belief; thought disturbance |
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| false perception involving one of the 5 senses |
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| loss of words or lack of spontaneity or responsiveness in conversation |
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| loss of interest in or ability to experience pleasure from activities that most people find applealing |
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condition that is characterized by psychomotor disturbances that involves at least 2 of the following:
motor immobility
excessive purposeless motor activity
mutism
bizzare movement
echolalia(verbal repetition) or echopraxia(repetition by imitation of another's movements) |
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| schizophrenia, undifferentiated |
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| this diagnosis is assigned to individuals who have the general symptoms of schizophrenia but do not meet the diagnostic criteria for paranoid, disorganized or catatonic type |
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| diagnosis given to people who have had at least one episode of schiziphrenia but currently lack prominent positive symptoms(i.e. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, or grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior |
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for at least 1 day, but less than 1 month, experience at least one of the following symptoms before returning to normal functioning:
delusions
hallucinations
disorganized speech
grossly disturbed or catatonic behavior
The condition can be specified as
1) with marked stressors
2)without marked stressors
or 3) with postpartum onset |
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| schizophreniform disorder |
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people with this disorder experience an episode (at least 1 month but less than 6 months in duration) of at least 2 of the following schizophrenic symptoms
delusions
hallucinations
disorganized speech
disturbed or catatonic behavior
negative symptoms, such as flat effect or severe lack of emotion |
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have experienced an uninterrupted period of disturbance, during which they have had either a major depressive episode, a manic episode, or a mixed episode concurrent with at least 2 of the following schizophrenic symptoms:
delusions
hallucinations
disorganized speech
disturbed or catatonic behavior
negative symptoms, such as flat effect or severe lack of emotion
during the period of disturbance, the person has experienced delusions or hallucinations for at least 2 weeks in the absence of mood symptoms |
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people with this disorder have nonbizzare delusions lasting at least 1 month
they have never had schizophrenic symptoms, other than possible tactile or olfactory hallucinations related to the delusional theme
for the most part, their functioning is not impaired; nor is their behavior bizzare
types include: grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed and unspecified |
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| shared psychotic disorder |
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| case in which a person develops a delusion similar to an already established delusion held by a person with whom he or she shares a close relationship |
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| antipsychotic major tranquilizers |
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