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Mental Health NU160 Exam 3 |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




questions with answers |\ |\




Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


serious and potentially fatal side effect with unstable vital signs,
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fever, confusion, muscle rigidity, tremor, and incontinence
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Type 1: Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Maladaptive behaviors and thoughts, ACTIONS, ACT
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OUT
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Delusions, hallucinations, illusions, speech problems, bizarre
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behaviors, agitation, catatonic behavior |\ |\ |\




Too much dopamine, brain size and structure normal
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Response to antipsychotics is usually good |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Type 2: Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Lack of adaptive mechanisms, THOUGHTS, DON'T
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ACT OUT |\




Anergia, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, flat affect, won't speak
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unless spoken to |\ |\




Too little dopamine, decreased blood flow to brain, increased size
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of ventricles in brain, decrease in size of brain
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Response to antipsychotics is usually poor |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




The inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with
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life's demands is - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔psychosis
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, Catatonia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔disrupts how your brain
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works, disrupting how a person processes and reacts to the world
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around them
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Schizophrenia Subtype: Catatonic - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


✔✔immobility or excessive activity with no purpose, odd |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


movements, rigid posture, echopraxia (mimics movements of
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others), echolalia (echoes others' speech), may suffer from
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malnutrition, dehydration, exhaustion, prognosis is fair
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Schizophrenia Subtype: Disorganized - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


✔✔disordered thinking, speech, and behavior, unable to perform |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


ADL's, early onset, prognosis is poor
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Schizophrenia Subtype: Paranoid - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


✔✔organized delusions of grandeur or persecution, auditory|\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


hallucinations, high anxiety, suspicious, angry, can be violent or |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


suicidal, late onset, prognosis is good with treatment
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Schizophrenia Subtype: Residual - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔at |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


least one acute episode of schizophrenia, is free of acute
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psychosis but has symptoms of disorder, emotional changes,
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schizophrenia present for many years, time is limited between |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


acute episodes, prognosis is poor
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hallucinations - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔false sensory inputs with |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


no external stimuli
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