Exam 13: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Mark was diagnosed with schizophrenia many years ago. Most recently, he has been exhibiting some bizarre behaviors. For example, he stands for hours in unusual postures. Mark's motor dysfunction is called __________________.

The neuroleptic drugs introduced in the 1950s affect primarily the positive symptoms of schizophrenia, which include all of the following EXCEPT .

How do the delusions in delusional disorder differ from the delusions in paranoid schizophrenia?

Which of the following is the best description of schizophrenia?

James is a security guard at the mall who seems lost in his own world. Often, he feels the presence of his dead mother nearby. He knows it is an illusion and that she is not real. Her presence does give him comfort. James probably would be diagnosed with

Of the various genetic linkage and association studies, the one that seems to be a possible "marker" for schizophrenia involves .

Endophenotyping refers to looking for

Making the diagnosis of schizophrenia is controversial because

In the late 1800s, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraeplin made all of the following contributions to our knowledge of schizophrenia EXCEPT

Toward the end of the 19th century, Emil Kraeplin, studying the disorder we now call schizophrenia, used the term because he observed that the onset of symptoms often occurred before adulthood.

The 1970s experiment in which behavioral (or social learning) principles were applied to a traditional inpatient environment in the form of a token economy resulted in

In the textbook case of Arthur, he said that he had a "secret plan to save all the starving children in the world." After Arthur showed other bizarre behavior and also said he was going to climb the fence of a government building, his parents tried to have him admitted to a psychiatric hospital. They were not able to do that because

Which of the following is NOT one of the typical minor side effects of antipsychotic medications?

Which of the following is TRUE in regard to the genetic basis of schizophrenia?

Research studies focusing on genetic factors in schizophrenia have found that

The negative schizophrenic symptom called anhedonia is defined as

Which of the following defines the persecutory type of delusional disorder?

Families with a high expressed emotion (EE) score view the symptoms of schizophrenia as .

Since the latter half of the 20th century, the policy of deinstitutionalization (time-limited hospital stays for psychotic patients) has resulted in

An integrated treatment approach to schizophrenia would include