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Mental Health Test 2
Aging and Schizophrenia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Gerontology | study of aging process |
| Geriatrics | branch of clinical medicine specializing in problems of the elderly |
| Geropsychiatry | branch of clinical medicine specializing in psychopathology of the elderly population |
| Biological theory of aging | to explain the physical process of aging including molecular and cellular changes in major organ system and the body's ability to function adequately and resist disease |
| Psychological theory of aging | focuses on social and psychological changes that accompany advancing ages |
| short term memory with aging | deteriorates with age |
| long term memory with aging | does not show any change with aging |
| Neuroplasticity | brains capacity to adapt, change, evolve, and grow in response to life and time |
| Predisposing factors of schizophrenia | multifactorial causes with genetics, biochemical, physiological and psychosocial |
| Schizophrenia | disturbance of the thought processes, perception and affect of an individual |
| Four phases of schizophrenia | premorbid, prodromal, active, and residual |
| Positive signs and symptoms of schizophrenia | adding to normal social behavior |
| Negative signs and symptoms of schizophrenia | taking away from normal social behavior |
| Biochemical factors of schizophrenia | excess of dopamine |
| Anatomical abnormalities of schizophrenia | hippocampus and limbic system is reduce or atrophied |
| Schizoaffective disorder | combination of schizophrenia symptoms and mood disorder |
| Schizophreniform disorder | short term mental health condition that mimics schizophrenia |
| Delusional Disorder | false things seem real to the client |
| Grandiose | better than everyone else |
| Persecutory | most common type and they think they are being mistreated |
| Somatic | they think they have a medical condition |
| Nihilistic | life is nonexistent or has been destroyed |
| Flat | void of all emotions |
| Anosognosia | lack of awareness of having the disorder |
| Anergia | absence of energy to do anything |
| Anhedonia | inability to experience pleasure |
| Abstraction | lack of thinking and interpretation |
| Waxy flexibility | allows their body parts to be placed in bizarre or uncomfortable positions associated with catatonia/inability to move |
| Antipsychotics | Blocks dopamine receptor that is thought to control positive symptoms |
| Pseudoparkinsonism | tremors, shuffling gait, drooling |
| Akathisia | constant restlessness, fidgeting, sense of doom |
| Dystonia | involuntary muscular movements of face, arms, legs, and neck |
| Oculogyric crisis | uncontrolled rolling back of the eyes |
| Tardive dyskinesia | facial and tongue movements with a stiff neck |
| Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) | muscle rigidity, very high fever, rapid deterioration of mental status to stupor and coma |
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