Schizophrenia

  1. What percentage of the world population does schizophrenia affect?
    1%
  2. Schizophrenia is not a split personality, but rather a...
    split mind
  3. Symptoms when someone is experiencing somthing that isn't necessarily there.
    Positive symptoms
  4. What are some positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
    Thought disorders, dillusions, and hallucinations
  5. The most important symptoms of schizophrenia, this causes difficulty in arranging thoughts and use of meaningless words.
    Thought disorder
  6. These are beliefs that are clewarly in contradiction with reality.
    Delusion
  7. A type of delusion in which the person believs that others are plotting and conspiring against them.
    Persecution
  8. A type of delusion in which a person has beliefs of power and importance.
    Grandeur
  9. A type of delusion in which the person believes they are being controlled by others.
    Control
  10. A symptom in which a person has a perception of a nonexistent event or hears voices.
    Hallucination
  11. These are symptoms usually produced by brain damage, which can be caused by heavy medication.
    Negative symptoms
  12. What are some negative symptoms?
    Absence of normal behavior, flattened emotional response, poverty of speech, lack of pleasure
  13. What is the concordance rate between monozygotic twins?
    Between 47 and 49%
  14. What is the concordance rate between dizygotic twins?
    13%
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Card Set
Schizophrenia
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