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What is considered the cancer of psychological disorders?
Schizophrenia
What three things characterise schizophrenia?
Disorganized and delusional thinking
Disturbed perceptions
Inappropriate emotions and actions
What are the most common forms of hallucinations?
visual and auditory
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia
symptoms that are
present
in them but not in normal individuals.
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
symptoms that are
not present
in them but are in normal individuals.
Chronic process of schizophrenia is described as
a slow onset with negative symptoms and doubtful recovery
Acute process of schizophrenia is described as
a rapid onset with positive symptoms and better recovery
What are the 5 subtypes of schizophrenia?
paranoid
disorganized
catatonic
undifferntiated
residual
Research has shown that schizophrenic patients exhibit higher levels of what receptor in the brain?
Dopamine D4
Schiophrenics show abnormal activity in what three parts of the brain?
frontal lobe
thalamus
amygdala
Author
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ID
104005
Card Set
Module 51
Description
Schizophrenia
Updated
2011-09-24T20:09:49Z
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