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| Question | Answer |
| What is Schizophrenia? | Schizophrenia is a complex neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by a profound disruption in cognition and emotion, affecting on or more of the most fundamental human attributes: 1.delusions 2.hallucinations 3.disorganized thinking or speech 4.grossly disorganized or abnormal motoric behavior (including catatonia) 5. negative symptoms |
| What is a delusion? | fixed belief not amendable to change in light of conflicting evidence. |
| What is an erotomanic delusion? | when an individual believes falsely that another person is in love with them. |
| What is a nihilistic delusion? | conviction that a major catastrophe will occur |
| what is a somatic delusion? | preoccupation regarding health and organ function |
| what is a delusion of control? | believed that one's body or actions are being acted on or manipulated by an outside force. |
| what is an hallucination? | perception like experiences that occur without an external stimulus |
| Which hallucination is most common in schizophrenia and related disorder? | Auditory Hallucination |
| Two most prevalent negative symptoms prevalent in schizophrenia | diminished emotional expression and avolition |
| Define avolition | decrease in motivated self-initiated purposeful activities |
| define alogia | diminished speech output |
| define anhedonia | decreased ability to experience pleasure from positive stimuli or a degradation in the recollection of pleasure previously experienced. |
| define asociality | apparent lack of interest in social interactions and may be associated with avolition |
| What time criteria is attached to Brief Psychotic disorder? | more than a day, less than a month |
| What time characterizes Schizophreniform disorder? | Symptoms equivalent to schizophrenia excepting it lasts less than 6 months and may have not have declining fucntion |
| What time criteria is applied to schizophrenia? | Lasts for at least 6 months and includes at least 1 month of acute phase symptoms. |
| What time criteria is applied to Schizoaffective disorder? | a mood episode and an active-phase symptoms of schizophrenia occur together and were preceded or are followed by at least 2 weeks of delusions or hallucinations without prominent mood symptoms |
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