PSYC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Catatonia, Vocational Rehabilitation, Clozapine
10 May 2018
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Chapter terms – Thorazine, Clozaril, Zyperxa
During the 1990s, a new type of antipsychotic medication became available to treat
schizophrenic patients who were not helped by conventional antipsychotic medications or who
had developed unpleasant side effects. These new antipsychotic medications include all of the
following except :
Risperdal (risperidone)
Clozaril (clozapine)
Thorazine (chlorpromazine)
Zyprexa (olanzapine)
NOT Clozaril (clozapine)
Thorazine (chlorpromazine) ???
Schizophrenia can disrupt a person's:
perceptions
speech
movements
all of these
all of these
Which of the following statements is true about the onset of schizophrenia?
men are more likely than women to develop a first onset of schizophrenia before age 35
women are more likely than men to develop a first onset of schizophrenia before age 35
men and women are equally likely to develop a first onset of schizophrenia before age 35
schizophrenia does not occur in men or women after age 65
men are more likely than women to develop a first onset of schizophrenia before age 35
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Document Summary
During the 1990s, a new type of antipsychotic medication became available to treat schizophrenic patients who were not helped by conventional antipsychotic medications or who had developed unpleasant side effects. These new antipsychotic medications include all of the following except : Schizophrenia can disrupt a person"s: perceptions speech movements all of these all of these. Joan is careful to look through all her food carefully before she eats it because she fears her parents have orders from the cia to poison her. Joan"s experience is an example of what symptom of schizophrenia? flat affect alogia delusion hallucination delusion. Nan and tom have been married for 10 years. For many years, tom has believed that other people are trying to harm him and nan; these beliefs have persisted even though there"s no real evidence of their accuracy. In the past few years, nan developed these beliefs as well.
