Exam 10: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Tardive dyskinesia is especially common among ________ patients.

Tardive dyskinesia is especially common among younger male patients treated for schizophrenia with antipsychotic drugs.

Research suggests that people with schizophrenia have a ________ than normal number of dopamine receptors in the brain and that their receptors are ________ sensitive to dopamine.

About ________ % of Canadians warrant a diagnosis of schizophrenia at some point in their lives.

Emotional response in schizophrenics is typified by ________ affect.

Randi is in treatment for schizophrenia.Her therapist suggests that much of her schizophrenic behaviour was modelled after the behaviour of other hospitalized patients and unintentionally rewarded by the hospital staff.Randi's therapist is most likely a ________ therapist.

Drug-induced hallucinations tend to be auditory.

Hallucinations in people without psychiatric conditions are often triggered by __________.

Most antipsychotic drugs appear ________ of schizophrenia.

People with schizophrenia have cold,overprotective mothers.

Tardive dyskinesia is more common among _______ people and _______ .

The residual phase of schizophrenia follows an acute phase,characterized by a return to a level of functioning typical of the prodromal phase.

Discuss deficits in attention involved in schizophrenia,referring to recent psychophysiological research.

Most behaviour therapists believe faulty learning causes schizophrenia.

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

The therapist who labelled the "four As" of schizophrenia as the major symptoms of the disorder was ________.

For people receiving long-term treatment with neuroleptics,__________ will eventually develop tardive dyskinesia.

Andy suffers from schizophrenia.One of his symptoms is that while talking to others,he will string words together on the basis of rhyming,without regard to the meaning of the words.As a result,many of his "clever little poems" lack any comprehensible meaning to his listeners.When Andy does this he is engaging in ________.

Scott's schizophrenia came on him suddenly.Although he preserved his intellectual ability,he exhibited delusions,hallucinations,looseness of association,and other positive symptoms.Despite the rapid onset and the severity of his symptoms,he responded well to antipsychotic drugs.Scott's disorder is best described as ________ schizophrenia.

Abraham has schizophrenia.Some of his symptoms include hallucinations,delusions,bizarre behaviours,and thought disorder.These symptoms are classified as ________ symptoms.