JOMC 486 EXAM 2 COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW SHEET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● How many people affected by schizophrenia?
Answer: 1% of adults
(1 in 100 , 1 in 40,000 children)
●● Schizophrenia more common in
Answer: Men
●● Schizophrenia usually presents
Answer: At 15-25 years
●● Comorbids to Schizo
Answer: Substance abuse disorders
(Nicotine dependence)
Anxiety, depression, and suicide
Physical health or illness
(CV disease)-related to medications
Psychosis-induced polydipsia
,●● Comorbids to BD
Answer:
●● Schizo is characterized by
Answer: Psychosis
(Altered cognition, perception, and reality testing)
●● Risk factors of schizophrenia
Answer: Genetic
Neurobiological
(Dopamine theory)-Positive symptoms
Brain structure abnormalities
Psychological and environmental factors
●● Hypothesis is based on
Answer: Treatment, how the person responds to the specific
medications/interventions
●● Four main symptom groups of schizo
Answer: Positive
Cognitive
,Negative
Affective
●● Positive symptoms
Answer: Delusions
Hallucinations
Bizarre behavior
(ADD)
●● Delusions include...
Answer: Persecution (paranoia)
Referential
Grandiosity
Erotomanic
Nihilistic
Somatic Sensations
Control
●● Alterations in speech include...
Answer: Flight of ideas
Neologisms
Echolalia
, Circumstantiality
Tangentiality
Symbolic speech
Clang associations
Word salad
●● Circumstantial speech
Answer: A pattern of speech characterized by indirectness and delay
before the person gets to the point or answers a question; the person gets
caught up in countless details and explanations.
●● Tangentiality speech
Answer: Wandering off topic or going off on tangents and never
reaching the point
●● Cognitive symptoms
Answer: Disorganized thinking (Usually concrete)
Inattention, distracted
Impaired memory
Poor problem solving
Impaired judgement
●● Alterations in Perception
REVIEW SHEET QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS
●● How many people affected by schizophrenia?
Answer: 1% of adults
(1 in 100 , 1 in 40,000 children)
●● Schizophrenia more common in
Answer: Men
●● Schizophrenia usually presents
Answer: At 15-25 years
●● Comorbids to Schizo
Answer: Substance abuse disorders
(Nicotine dependence)
Anxiety, depression, and suicide
Physical health or illness
(CV disease)-related to medications
Psychosis-induced polydipsia
,●● Comorbids to BD
Answer:
●● Schizo is characterized by
Answer: Psychosis
(Altered cognition, perception, and reality testing)
●● Risk factors of schizophrenia
Answer: Genetic
Neurobiological
(Dopamine theory)-Positive symptoms
Brain structure abnormalities
Psychological and environmental factors
●● Hypothesis is based on
Answer: Treatment, how the person responds to the specific
medications/interventions
●● Four main symptom groups of schizo
Answer: Positive
Cognitive
,Negative
Affective
●● Positive symptoms
Answer: Delusions
Hallucinations
Bizarre behavior
(ADD)
●● Delusions include...
Answer: Persecution (paranoia)
Referential
Grandiosity
Erotomanic
Nihilistic
Somatic Sensations
Control
●● Alterations in speech include...
Answer: Flight of ideas
Neologisms
Echolalia
, Circumstantiality
Tangentiality
Symbolic speech
Clang associations
Word salad
●● Circumstantial speech
Answer: A pattern of speech characterized by indirectness and delay
before the person gets to the point or answers a question; the person gets
caught up in countless details and explanations.
●● Tangentiality speech
Answer: Wandering off topic or going off on tangents and never
reaching the point
●● Cognitive symptoms
Answer: Disorganized thinking (Usually concrete)
Inattention, distracted
Impaired memory
Poor problem solving
Impaired judgement
●● Alterations in Perception
