Clinical Characteristics of Schizophrenia
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- Created on: 20-04-15 13:45
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- Clinical Characteristic
- DSM-5
- Presence of at least 2 symptoms
- Over a significant amount of time (1 month)
- Over disorders with psychotic features must be ruled out
- Schizo-affective disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Onset
- Clinical Characteristic
- DSM-5
- Presence of at least 2 symptoms
- Over a significant amount of time (1 month)
- Over disorders with psychotic features must be ruled out
- Schizo-affective disorder
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Onset
- Typically late teens-early 20s in males
- Late 20s in females
- Symptoms usually occur after prodromal period of weeks or months
- Active phase can last 1-6 months but potentially lasts up to a year
- Presence of at least 2 symptoms
- Positive Symptoms
- Mis-interpretation of perception or experience
- Hallucinations
- Any modality- auditory most common
- Delusions
- Disorganized Speech
- Topic Shifts
- Jumbled words
- Sound repetition
- Neoglisms
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour
- Disruption to daily activity
- Lengthy, strange or motionless standing postures
- Resist efforts to shift position
- Lack of emtion
- No response to stimuli
- Immobile face
- Lifeless eyes
- DSM-5
- Typically late teens-early 20s in males
- Late 20s in females
- Symptoms usually occur after prodromal period of weeks or months
- Active phase can last 1-6 months but potentially lasts up to a year
- Clinical Characteristic
- Presence of at least 2 symptoms
- Positive Symptoms
- Mis-interpretation of perception or experience
- Hallucinations
- Any modality- auditory most common
- Delusions
- Disorganized Speech
- Topic Shifts
- Jumbled words
- Sound repetition
- Neoglisms
- Grossly disorganized or catatonic behaviour
- Disruption to daily activity
- Lengthy, strange or motionless standing postures
- Resist efforts to shift position
- Lack of emtion
- No response to stimuli
- Immobile face
- Lifeless eyes
- DSM-5
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