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NUR 210/ NUR210 Exam 4| Questions &
Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified
Solutions) (Latest 2025/ 2026)
1. What has the potential to induce psychotic states?: Sleep
deprivation has the potential to induce psychotic states
2. What are the most common risk factors of psychosis?: Family
history of psychosis
Past psychotic episodes
Substance use
Stress intolerance
Ineffective coping skills
Preexisting psychiatric illness
3. What is religiosity?: The extent of influence of religion in a person's
life (example: satin is laying eggs in my kidneys)
4. What is schizophrenia?: Epidemiology
Prevalence of 1% worldwide; higher in immigrant populations
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Typical age at onset is late teens and early 20s, but is seen in young
children, and can begin in later adulthood
Children with a low IQ are at risk to develop dz
20 to 40% of people with schizophrenia attempt suicide
Approximately 5% of people with schizophrenia die by suicide
5. At what age do men and women typically get diagnosed with
schizophrenia?: Men: typically, 18-25
Women: typically, 25-35 with additional onset in women after
menopause
6. How does genetics relate to schizophrenia?: Research
suggests schizophrenia has the strongest genetic link among known
psychiatric disorders 7. How does environment relate to
schizophrenia?: -Neurobiology -obstetrical complications
-childhood
-later life
8. How does obstetrical complications effect environment
relating to schizophrenia?: Prenatal/postnatal infections
Maternal malnutrition
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9. How does childhood effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: ACE events, child abuse Head injury
10. How does later life effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: Drug abuse
Migration/ethnicity
Urbanization
Social adversity, poverty/low SES
Life events, crisis
11. How does Neurobiology effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: "Chemical disturbances"
-Dopamine hypothesis (associated with positive symptoms)
-Increased dopamine production
-Increased release of dopamine
-Increased receptor sensitivity
-Increased dopamine receptors
12. What are biomarkers seen in schizophrenia?: -Other NTs
involved: norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, GABA, and
glutamate, loss of grey matter, ventricular enlargement
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-Excess in serotonin (associated with positive & negative symptoms)
-Glutamate levels
13. What happens to the glutamate levels in
schizophrenia?: -Increase during stress
-First episode of psychosis precipitated by stress
-Hippocampus becomes hypermetabolic then atrophies
-Common finding in schizophrenia - research to identify new
biomarkers to signal early illness, prevention, & treatment
14. What is the overview of symptoms with schizophrenia?:
-Chronic or recurrent psychosis
-Characterized by periods of remission and exacerbation
-Disturbances in thought processes, perception and affect causing
severe loss of social and occupational function
-Presentation includes positive sx, negative sx, and cognitive sx
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NUR 210
NUR 210/ NUR210 Exam 4| Questions &
Answers| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified
Solutions) (Latest 2025/ 2026)
1. What has the potential to induce psychotic states?: Sleep
deprivation has the potential to induce psychotic states
2. What are the most common risk factors of psychosis?: Family
history of psychosis
Past psychotic episodes
Substance use
Stress intolerance
Ineffective coping skills
Preexisting psychiatric illness
3. What is religiosity?: The extent of influence of religion in a person's
life (example: satin is laying eggs in my kidneys)
4. What is schizophrenia?: Epidemiology
Prevalence of 1% worldwide; higher in immigrant populations
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Typical age at onset is late teens and early 20s, but is seen in young
children, and can begin in later adulthood
Children with a low IQ are at risk to develop dz
20 to 40% of people with schizophrenia attempt suicide
Approximately 5% of people with schizophrenia die by suicide
5. At what age do men and women typically get diagnosed with
schizophrenia?: Men: typically, 18-25
Women: typically, 25-35 with additional onset in women after
menopause
6. How does genetics relate to schizophrenia?: Research
suggests schizophrenia has the strongest genetic link among known
psychiatric disorders 7. How does environment relate to
schizophrenia?: -Neurobiology -obstetrical complications
-childhood
-later life
8. How does obstetrical complications effect environment
relating to schizophrenia?: Prenatal/postnatal infections
Maternal malnutrition
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9. How does childhood effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: ACE events, child abuse Head injury
10. How does later life effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: Drug abuse
Migration/ethnicity
Urbanization
Social adversity, poverty/low SES
Life events, crisis
11. How does Neurobiology effect environment relating to
schizophrenia?: "Chemical disturbances"
-Dopamine hypothesis (associated with positive symptoms)
-Increased dopamine production
-Increased release of dopamine
-Increased receptor sensitivity
-Increased dopamine receptors
12. What are biomarkers seen in schizophrenia?: -Other NTs
involved: norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine, GABA, and
glutamate, loss of grey matter, ventricular enlargement
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-Excess in serotonin (associated with positive & negative symptoms)
-Glutamate levels
13. What happens to the glutamate levels in
schizophrenia?: -Increase during stress
-First episode of psychosis precipitated by stress
-Hippocampus becomes hypermetabolic then atrophies
-Common finding in schizophrenia - research to identify new
biomarkers to signal early illness, prevention, & treatment
14. What is the overview of symptoms with schizophrenia?:
-Chronic or recurrent psychosis
-Characterized by periods of remission and exacerbation
-Disturbances in thought processes, perception and affect causing
severe loss of social and occupational function
-Presentation includes positive sx, negative sx, and cognitive sx
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