Exam 13: Schizophrenia

Tardive dyskinesia is BEST described as a(n) ______ side effect of first-generation antipsychotics.

Until about the 1960s, individuals with schizophrenia were generally housed in institutions.

One side effect of early medications for schizophrenia was a movement disorder called ______.

With respect to the etiology of schizophrenia, the prodromal phase ______ the premorbid phase and _____ the psychotic phase.

If schizophrenia were recategorized in an upcoming edition of the DSM, it would MOST likely be classed as a(n) ______ disorder.

Disorders with psychotic-like symptoms have been described for at least 4,000 years.

With respect to schizophrenia, the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex is to the medial prefrontal cortex as ______ is to ______.

The white matter losses seen in schizophrenia are ______.

______ are one class of medications sometimes used to treat schizophrenia.

The ______ hypothesis is the idea that dopamine neurons are overactive in midbrain areas and underactive in higher cortical areas among people with schizophrenia.

Which pair consists of negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Among the first-degree relatives of people with schizophrenia, endophenotypic abnormalities are ______.

Genius and creativity may be associated with schizotypal traits.

If the neurotransmitters ______ and ______ are blocked, an individual may display psychotic symptoms.

Hebephrenic schizophrenia is the same thing as ______ schizophrenia.

More than 1,000 different genes may contribute to the development of schizophrenia.

Research in the 1990s suggested that the concordance rate for schizophrenia between identical twins was about ______%. More recent work has ______ this estimate.

Repeating movements is to repeating words as ______ is to ______.

Of the brain's lobes, the ______ lobe has probably been the one that has received the MOST research attention with respect to a potential involvement in schizophrenia.

In ______, a person with schizophrenia shows little interest in talking with others.