NR546 Week 3 Questions And Answers
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antipsychotic meds - Answer primarily used for schizophrenia & psychotic
disorders
-also used as adjunctive meds for management of tx-resistant depression & other
conditions
-not curative
-decrease/control symptoms/improve quality of life
Schizophrenia - Answer a disturbance that must last for 6 months or longer,
including at least one month of positive symptoms or negative symptoms
-neurodevelopmental, brain disorder
-psychological condition involving chronic or repeated episodes of psychosis
cause: combination of genetics and environmental factors
DX: based on clinical interview
,Schizophrenia increases the risk of: - Answer suicide
homeless
jail/prison
psychosis - Answer set of symptoms in which a person's mental capacity,
affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to
others is impaired
Hallmarks of psychosis - Answer Delusions and hallucinations
-often called the "positive symptoms" of psychosis
-Delusions are fixed beliefs - often bizarre - that have an inadequate rational basis
and can't be changed by rational arguments or evidence to the contrary
-Hallucinations are perceptual experiences of any sensory modality - especially
auditory - that occur without a real external stimulus, yet are vivid and clear, just
like normal perceptions, but not under voluntary control
Symptoms of psychosis: - Answer -hallucinations
-delusions
-disorganized speech
-disorganized behavior
-distortions of reality
-inappropriate or very strong emotions or apathy
,-negative symptoms: diminished emotional expression and decreased motivation
perceptual distortions and motor disturbances can be associated with _________
- Answer any type of psychosis.
-Perceptual distortions include being distressed by hallucinatory voices; seeing
visions; reporting hallucinations of touch, taste, or odor; or reporting that familiar
things and people seem changed.
-Motor disturbances are peculiar, rigid postures; overt signs of tension;
inappropriate grins or giggles; peculiar repetitive gestures; talking, muttering, or
mumbling to oneself; or glancing around as if hearing voices.
-paranoid psychosis, the patient has paranoid projections, hostile belligerence,
and grandiose expansiveness. often occurs in schizophrenia and in many drug-
induced psychoses
Grandiose expansiveness - Answer exhibiting an attitude of superiority;
hearing voices that praise and extol; believing one has unusual powers or is a
well-known personality, or that one has a divine mission, which is often seen in
schizophrenia and in manic psychosis
Psychosis can affect a person's: - Answer -cognition
-affective response
-communication
-capacity to recognize reality
-ability to relate to others
, _________ is a defining feature for some psychotic disorders while other
disorders may have a psychotic component - Answer psychosis
Diagnoses Requiring the Presence of Psychosis - Answer -Schizophrenia
-Substance-induced psychotic disorders
-Schizophreniform disorder
-Shizoafffective disorder
-Delusional disorder
-Brief psychotic disorder
-Psychotic disorder d/t a medical condition
Diagnoses with Psychosis as a Feature - Answer -Mania
-Depression
-Cognitive disorders
-Dementia
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - Answer -hallucinations
-delusions
-thought disorder
-hostility
-excitability
Latest Update 2026
antipsychotic meds - Answer primarily used for schizophrenia & psychotic
disorders
-also used as adjunctive meds for management of tx-resistant depression & other
conditions
-not curative
-decrease/control symptoms/improve quality of life
Schizophrenia - Answer a disturbance that must last for 6 months or longer,
including at least one month of positive symptoms or negative symptoms
-neurodevelopmental, brain disorder
-psychological condition involving chronic or repeated episodes of psychosis
cause: combination of genetics and environmental factors
DX: based on clinical interview
,Schizophrenia increases the risk of: - Answer suicide
homeless
jail/prison
psychosis - Answer set of symptoms in which a person's mental capacity,
affective response, and capacity to recognize reality, communicate, and relate to
others is impaired
Hallmarks of psychosis - Answer Delusions and hallucinations
-often called the "positive symptoms" of psychosis
-Delusions are fixed beliefs - often bizarre - that have an inadequate rational basis
and can't be changed by rational arguments or evidence to the contrary
-Hallucinations are perceptual experiences of any sensory modality - especially
auditory - that occur without a real external stimulus, yet are vivid and clear, just
like normal perceptions, but not under voluntary control
Symptoms of psychosis: - Answer -hallucinations
-delusions
-disorganized speech
-disorganized behavior
-distortions of reality
-inappropriate or very strong emotions or apathy
,-negative symptoms: diminished emotional expression and decreased motivation
perceptual distortions and motor disturbances can be associated with _________
- Answer any type of psychosis.
-Perceptual distortions include being distressed by hallucinatory voices; seeing
visions; reporting hallucinations of touch, taste, or odor; or reporting that familiar
things and people seem changed.
-Motor disturbances are peculiar, rigid postures; overt signs of tension;
inappropriate grins or giggles; peculiar repetitive gestures; talking, muttering, or
mumbling to oneself; or glancing around as if hearing voices.
-paranoid psychosis, the patient has paranoid projections, hostile belligerence,
and grandiose expansiveness. often occurs in schizophrenia and in many drug-
induced psychoses
Grandiose expansiveness - Answer exhibiting an attitude of superiority;
hearing voices that praise and extol; believing one has unusual powers or is a
well-known personality, or that one has a divine mission, which is often seen in
schizophrenia and in manic psychosis
Psychosis can affect a person's: - Answer -cognition
-affective response
-communication
-capacity to recognize reality
-ability to relate to others
, _________ is a defining feature for some psychotic disorders while other
disorders may have a psychotic component - Answer psychosis
Diagnoses Requiring the Presence of Psychosis - Answer -Schizophrenia
-Substance-induced psychotic disorders
-Schizophreniform disorder
-Shizoafffective disorder
-Delusional disorder
-Brief psychotic disorder
-Psychotic disorder d/t a medical condition
Diagnoses with Psychosis as a Feature - Answer -Mania
-Depression
-Cognitive disorders
-Dementia
schizophrenia: positive symptoms - Answer -hallucinations
-delusions
-thought disorder
-hostility
-excitability
