9. Schitzophrenia an der International Psychoanalytic University

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Charlie enjoyed going to the movies. He particularly liked to see horror movies because they made him feel really scared. His sister was surprised to learn this because when she went to the movies with Charlie, he didn't gasp out loud or show fear on his face.

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Marlene was convinced that Christian Bale was sending her messages. In his movie The Dark Knight, his battles with the Joker were a signal that he was prepared to fight for them to be together. That he signed autographs at his movie opening also told her that he was trying to get in touch with her

Sophia didn't want to go out to dinner with her family. She reasoned that these dinners were always the same food and conversation, so why bother? Later in the week, her mother mentioned that Sophia was not doing much around the house. Sophia said that nothing she could think of to do would be fun.

Jevon was talking with his doctor about the side effects of his medication. He talked about having dry mouth and then immediately began talking about cottonmouth snakes and jungle safaris and how hiking was good for your hea lth but that Barack Obama was in better shape than George Bush.

. __________and _________ studies do not do such a good job of teasing out genetic and environmental effects; ______ studies do a better job.

. _________ and__________ are two candidate genes that have been associated with schizophrenia.

Some studies showing the ________ area of the brain to be disrupted in schizophrenia also show that people with schizophrenia do poorly on tasks that rely on this area, such as planning and problem solving.

_______, _____, and _____ are the three components of expressed emotion.

________,_______ and __________ are three sociocultural risk factors for

schizophrenia.

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First-generation antipsychotics include medications like Haldol or prolixin; second-generation antipsychoticsinclude clozapine and olanzapine

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Second-generation antipsychotics produce more motor side effects than first-generation anti psychotics.

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Cognitive behavior therapy, but not cognitive remediation therapy, is effective for schizophrenia, if given along with medications.