schizophrenia

What is positive symptoms

Positive symptoms are symptoms that adds to a person’s life, E.g hallucinations

What are some positive symptoms of schizophrenia

• Hallucinations

• Experiences of influence, passive or controll (the idea that our thoughts are being controlled by someone else)

• Delusions

• What is the criteria to diagnose schizophrenia

• Patient must have had consistent symptoms for a month

• Patient shouldn’t have any active addictions

• It can’t be any side effects of any medication

• The patient must have no underlying physical conditions

How does the ICD-11 categorize the symptoms

Into 6 dimensional descriptors and on a 4 point scale

What is prodormal symptoms

Weaker versions of the core symptoms

What is negative symptoms

Things that take away from a person’s life

• What are the negative symptoms

• Flat affect (not experiencing typical highs and lows)

• Avoliation (not being able to carry out goal oriented tasks)

• Alogia ( lack of spoken language)

• Asociality

• Anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure

What is the age of onset in females

Late 20’s

What is the age of onset for males

Early 20’s

What is idiographic and nomothetic approach?

Idiographic approach is when you focus on one individual and the nomothetic approach is when you look at the wider population