Schizophrenia (intro and PARANOID)

Schizophrenia

Way or process of thinking

Depersonalization and derealization

Common in schizophrenia

Dementia praecos

Old term of schizophrenia

Splitting of the mind

Schizophrenia means

Dopamine

Neurotransmitter affeced

50%

Chance of schizophrenia for identfical twin

15%

Chance of schizophrenia for fraternal twin

Frontal lobe

What lobe is responsible for the postive signs

Temporal love

What lobe is responsible for the negative signs

Loss of ego boundaries

Acc psychoanalytic thoery

Ambivalence

Acc to psychodynamic theory

• love hate

Mistrust, isolation, asocial behavior

when a child develops a thought disorder (from deprived of love rejection adn neglect) the child would

>1 day and <1 month

duration of brief psychotic

Premorbid

Traits and characteristics present

PHASES of schizophrenia

prodromal

102 s/sx presnet

Active

positive symptoms (2-3= schizophrenia (symptos and months))

Phase of schizophrenia

Residual

Phase of schizophrenia

• Negative symptoms

>1 month and <6 months

Duraton of schizophreniform

schizoaffective disorder

Schizo + depression + mania

Delusional disorder

Fixed false belief

Folie e deux

Shared psychotic disorder

30

Age common in schiphrenia

Inability to trust others

Disordered thought process

Disrupted psychomotor functioning

Characterized by psychomotor functioning

Paranoid, catatonic, disorganized

Major types of schizo

Undifferentiated, residual

Minor types of schizo

Autistic

preoccupation wiht the self with a little concernfor external reality

Ambivalence

2 opposing feeligns

Associative looseness

• stringing together of urelated topics

affect

• t- disturbance inappropriate blunted or flat affect

P ositive/hard

Excess or distortion of normal funk

Type l schizo

Negative soft loss of normal functioning

Type z schizo

Hallucination

Absence of stimuli

Illusion

Presence of stimulus

Apathy

Lack of interest

Anergia

Lack or energy

Gradeur

Superiority

Types of delusions

Persecutory

Types of delusions

Bringing HARM

Somatic

Types of delusions

Body

Jelousy

Types of delusions

Selosa

• chilhood rivalry

Religiosity

Types of delusions

Obsessed differetn biblical features

Nihilisic

Types of delusions

World end

False sensory perception

Nursing Dx for hallucination

Altered thought process

Nurisng Dx for delusion

Projection

Defense mechnism of schizophrenia

Gradeusity adn persecutory

Characteristics od delusions specific for schizophrenia

Visual and auditory

characteristic of schizophrenia

In hallucinations

assaultive and commanding

Auditory in schizo

(What are the voices)

Maintaining personal space

To incerase patient sense of security

Laugh, whispering, staring, argue, touch

Nrsg. Intervention

NO’s

Prepacked

Sealed

Giving food in schizophrenia it must be