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| Question | Answer |
| Schizophrenia | Schizophrenia is a much more common, and altogether different, type of disorder. |
| Positive symptoms | Delusions, Hallucinations, disorganised speech, grossly disorganised behaviour |
| Negative symptoms | affective flattening (reduced/lack of emotion), avolition (lack of motivation/energy/interest), alogia/poverty of speech (lack of speech) |
| Hallucinations | types: auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory (taste), tactile. |
| Delusions | Persecution, grandiose, referential, somatic, religious. Bizarre vs. non-bizarre |
| paranoid | Auditory disturbances – hearing things that are not real (more on hallucinations and delusions) Unexplained anger. Emotional disconnectedness. Severe anxiety and agitation. Argumentative behavior. Violent tendencies (more on violent behaviors) |
| cataonic | Decreased ________ activity, decreased engagement or excessive & peculiar motor activity |
| Disorganised | Grossly Disorganised Behaviour: Variety of bizarre or disrupted behavioural patterns Extreme agitation, uncontrollable childlike silliness, inability to perform simple activities of daily living Catatonic symptoms - bizarre motoric behaviours (i.e., extreme immobility, unresponsiveness) |
| Anti-psychotic medication | Thorazine, atypical antipsychotics, clozaril (atypical antipsychotic). Other atypical antipsychotics include Abilify, Geodon, Invega, Latuda, Risperdal, Saphris, Seroquel, and Zyprexa. |
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