PBD 4 Schizo

Characteistic symptoms

1 positive (one month) and 1 or more of any other (6 months)
T/F males are more likely to get schizo than women

False, equal
Cognitive defects
- Tangentiality
- loss of goals
- Incoherence
- Looseness of assosciations
- Neologisms
DA hypothesis

Mesolimbic DA excess, positve ,NAc

Mesocortical DA deficiency, neg/cog, Prefrontal cortex
Glutamate hypothesis

Loss of NMDA neg/cog symptoms
In Mesocortical pathway, Too much inhibition is due to an increase of ________ receptors

5HT-2A/C
Striatum contains _%_ D2 receptors

90%
D3/D4 receptors are found mainly in the

Frontal cortex

Author

swynocker

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PBD 4 Schizo

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PBD 4 Schizo

Updated

2010-11-22T05:00:56Z

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