Exam 13: Schizophrenia

Among people with schizophrenia, the brain's ventricles are ______

As an example of a ______ abnormality, people with schizophrenia show a different pattern of eye movements than do people without the disorder when they are asked to follow a moving object with their eyes.

The evoked potential waveform called ______ is NOT among those that seem to distinguish the cognitive task performance of individuals with schizophrenia from the performance of those without the disorder.

______ is NOT among the neurotransmitters implicated in schizophrenia.

______ disorders involve a loss of contact with reality and are characterized by abnormal thinking and sensory processes.

Schizophrenia is an example of a(n) _____ disorder.

In individuals without schizophrenia, ______ traits resemble the symptoms of schizophrenia.

Researchers have reduced their estimate of the concordance rate for schizophrenia between identical twins.

One negative symptom of schizophrenia is an inability to experience pleasure, which is also called ______.

Explain the dopamine imbalance hypothesis. Cite at least one piece of empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis. Finally, explain why the dopamine and glutamate hypotheses may be seen as complementary rather than competing proposals.

Schizophrenia affects about 1 person in ______.

The cognitive processes that seem deficient among people with schizophrenia all involve the ______ prefrontal cortex.

Nick is admitted to a hospital because he hears voices talking to him that no one else can hear, and he sees demons attacking him, even though no one else can see anything near him. Nick's symptoms are known as ______.

Schizophrenia is an example of a psychotic disorder.

As compared to individuals without schizophrenia, individuals with schizophrenia are ______ susceptible to the Charlie Chaplin illusion because their ______ cognitive processes are weaker.

The ______ were a "banner decade"in the history of schizophrenia.

Chlorpromazine drastically changed the treatment of schizophrenia in the year ______.

Among people with schizophrenia, reductions in the brain's gray matter are probably LEAST pronounced in the ______ lobe.

Select two of the three subtypes of schizophrenia described in the textbook. For each subtype that you select, suggest at least one way that one might identify the type of schizophrenia that a patient is presenting.

A reduction in the number of connections between the ______ and the ______ lobes may be partly responsible for the hallucinations that people with schizophrenia experience.