Kaplan and Sadock's Chapter 13 & 26 Questions and Correct Answers

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Kaplan and Sadock's Chapter 13 & 26
2026-2027 Questions and Correct
Answers

13.10. Childhood schizophrenia
A. tends to have a chronic course
B. tends to have a better prognosis that adult
schizophrenia
C. is not diagnosed using the same symptoms as are
used for adult schizophrenia
D. tends to have an abrupt onset
E. all of the above - ANSWERS-A. tends to have a
chronic course

13.11. Late-onset schizophrenia
A. is more common in men
B. is associated with a preponderance of paranoid
symptoms

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C. is clinically distinguishable from early-onset
schizophrenia
D. results in poorer response to antipsychotic
medications
E. has an onset after age 60 years - ANSWERS-B. is
associated with a preponderance of paranoid
symptoms

13.12. Which of the following istrue of brain imaging
technologies in the study of schizophrenia?
A. Computed tomography (CT) is used more often than
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in schizophrenia
research because its resolution is superior to that of MRI.
B. The abnormalities reported in CT studies of patients
with schizophrenia are specific for the pathophysiological
processes underlying the disease. C. In studies of
monozygotic twins discordant for schizophrenia, MRI
studies have shown that the cerebral ventricles in the
affected twins are larger than in the nonaffected twins.

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D. Positron emission tomography (PET) studies have
shown almost no impairment of brain areas after
psychological test stimulation.

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E. Function magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has