Exam 10: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

A full return to normal behaviour following an acute episode of schizophrenia is relatively common.

Schizophrenia touches every aspect of the affected person's life.

Adoption studies of schizophrenia have found that schizophrenia ________ when they are raised by normal adoptive parents.

The incidence of schizophrenia is higher among immigrants than among those who are native born.

People with schizophrenia show reduced brain activity in the ________.

The causes of schizophrenia are generally believed to be ________.

Discuss the family-intervention approach to the treatment of schizophrenia.

The strongest evidence for a genetic contribution to schizophrenia comes from ________ studies.

Evidence for a genetic contribution to the development of schizophrenia is ________.

When individuals on inpatient units are rewarded for appropriate behaviour with plastic chips that can be exchanged for tangible reinforcers such as desirable goods or privileges,this is called ________.

Many people with schizophrenia show no emotional response to tragic events.

Agranulocytosis affects about ________ % of patients who use the drug clozapine for the treatment of schizophrenia.

The major source of evidence supporting the dopamine model of schizophrenia comes from observing the effects of ________.

Freud believed that traditional psychoanalysis ________.

Positive symptoms of schizophrenia would include all of the following EXCEPT __________.

Research by the Mednick group found that a major predictor of schizophrenia in high-risk children is ________.

Evidence for the cause of schizophrenia points to defects in brain circuitry involving brain regions lying below the cortex,especially the hippocampus and _______,two structures in the limbic system.

Type II schizophrenia shows a developmental pattern suggesting ________.

The term schizophrenia means ________.

Drugs developed in the past few years not only treat schizophrenia,but can cure it in many cases.