Exam 11: Schizophrenia

A disorder of thought content would be:

Patients whose schizophrenia is characterized primarily by negative symptoms

A Canadian survey of 100 patients with schizophrenia that was conducted by the Schizophrenia Society of Canada found that the most common reason patients stopped taking their antipsychotic medication was:

Hospitalization rates for schizophrenia in psychiatric hospitals in Canada are about:

Bill believes that he is an important spy for an underground militia, on a mission to investigate the military activities in his town. He spends most of his time devising ways to tap into the phone lines of the government office near his home, and at precisely 5:10 every afternoon, he stands outside his home facing to the west, believing that in this way he is transmitting information to his bosses in the militia hometown. Which of the following diagnoses would best fit Bill?

A study by Kring and Neale (1996)found that in comparison to normal participants, clients with schizophrenia

Canadian research by Zakzanis and Heinrichs and their colleagues has recently led to the conclusion that specific temporal lobe deficits in the brains of schizophrenics

According to some authors, the utility of distinguishing between positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia is questioned because:

Schwartz et al. (2006)reported that _____ of a sample of individuals with schizophrenia showed evidence of substance use disorders.

Mr. Hart spends long hours sitting in a chair with his arms behind his back and his left leg tucked under. No matter what is going on around him, he remains in this position. This is an example of which symptom of schizophrenia?

Bleuler considered the breaking of associative threads the essential property of schizophrenia.

Formal thought disorder in schizophrenia refers to

Walter Heinrichs (2001)of York University suggested that:

fMRI studies found that certain areas of the brain are activated when people with schizophrenia are processing harsh social feedback. One of the areas implicated is the:

If genetic transmission was the only factor in the etiology of schizophrenia, the concordance of the disorder for monozygotic twins would be:

A media intervention in Western Canada designed to promote positive attitudes about schizophrenia among journalists resulted in:

Dementia praecox is the early term for

Eugen Bleuler considered an essential core sign of schizophrenia to be:

The main components of family therapy for schizophrenia include all of the following except:

A study by Stip et al. (2001)on people's perceptions of schizophrenia in Quebec found that: