subjective feelings, what's happening to the patient
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What is a feature?
facts
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What is schizophrenia?
a psychotic disorder characterised by positive symptoms with negative symptoms often present too
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What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
flat emotions, lack of self-care, energy, social withdrawal
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Give an example of flat emotions.
blank facial expressions
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Give an example of lack of self-care.
doesn't brush teeth
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Give an example of lack of energy.
no motivation to do daily chores
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Give an example of social withdrawal.
doesn't want to go and see friends
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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, thought insertion
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Give an example of hallucinations.
hearing voices, seeing things
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What are delusions?
believing things that aren't true
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Give an example of delusions.
thinking someone is after them, thinking they have powers (grandiose delusions)
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Characterise disordered thinking.
disrupted flow of speech and jumping from one topic to another
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What is thought insertion?
believe thoughts are someone else's or someone else can hear own thoughts
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What is the lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia?
0.3-0.7% (this changes depending on ethnicity, nationality and geographic origin)
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What is lifetime prevalence?
how likely you are within a lifetime to acquire that disease
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What is the onset for sz?
early to mid 20s in males, late 20s in females
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What is the prognosis?
hard to predict, a minority recover completely, but most experience chronic episodic impairment and some show progressive deterioration with increasing brief periods of remission and severe cognitive deficits
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Which symptoms may reduce over time?
positive symptoms but debilitating negative symptoms often remain
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