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Schizophrenia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the definition of a positive symptom if schizophrenia? | Additions to normal life experiences and concert losing touch with reality. |
| What is an example of a positive symptom? | Hallucinations and delusions |
| What is a hallucination? | Usually in form of hearing critical and unfriendly voices that are not there. |
| What are delusions? | A belief in something very unlikely or bizarre and untrue. |
| What is the definition of negative symptoms of schizophrenia? | Loss of usual abilities and experiences. |
| What is an example of negative symptoms? | Alogia (speech poverty) and abolition (lack of motivation) |
| What is alogia (speech poverty)? | When a phaeton loses their ability to speak fluently |
| What is abolition? | Where people with schizophrenia lack motivation, resulting in low activity levels. |
| What is classification? | It's a system used to list symptoms. They are grounded accordingly to mental disorders. |
| What is diagnosis? | Its giving a person a label and generally 2 or more symptoms for one month or more need to be present in order for the individual to receive that label. |
| How many participants were in rosenhand study? | 8 |
| How many hospitals did they visit? | 12 in 5 different states |
| What did the pseudopatients have to do? | State they were hearing voices saying 'empty, hollow, thud'. |
| What did they do once they gained admission? | They acted normal and said that their symptoms went away. |
| What were the two aims of the study? | To investigate whether psychiatric labels would be used in situations where they weren't appropriate. And to investigate the experience of being hospitalised in a psychiatric ward. |
| What were the main findings? | Non were ever detected as being pseudopatients and the longest stay was two months |
| What does DSM-5 stand for? | The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders |
| What us the DSM-5 | Its produced by the American psychiatric association and is most widely used diagnostic tool in psychiatric instructions throughout America and some parts of Europe. |
| What does ICD-11 stand for? | International statistical classification of diseases. |
| What is ICD-11 | Produced in Europe by the world health organisation currently in its 11th edition it's used in the UK and many other European countries |
| What symptoms does DSM-5 focus on most? | Positive symptoms |
| What symptoms does ICD-11 focus on most? | Negative symptoms |
| How long should a person experience symptoms for, according to the DSM-5 | 6 months |
| How long does a person need to experience symptoms for, according to ICD-11 | 1 month |
| What is co-morbidity? | The occurrence of two illnesses or conditions which questions the validity. |
| What is symptom overlap? | Occurs when two or more conditions share symptoms, causes problems when trying to clarify disorders separately. |
| What us schizophrenia? | A sever mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired, and example of psychosis |
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