Kaplan and Sadock's Chapter 13 & 26 from Study Guide: Schizophrenia and personality disorders
Kaplan and Sadock's Chapter 13 & 26 from Study Guide: Schizophrenia and personality disorders|13.1. Which of the following statements about the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia is true? A. Dysregulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission is caused by postsynaptic sensitivity. B. Dopamine release caused by amphetamine challenge is higher during remission. C. Higher amphetamine-provoked dopamine release predicts worsening of psychotic symptoms. D. Overactivity of dopamine in the subcortical basal ganglia contributes to negative symptoms. E. There is a lower occupancy of D2/3 receptors in relapsed patients., 13.2. True statements about hypothesized neurobiological models of schizophrenia include A. Genes function in part by increasing vulnerability to environmental factors. B. Environmental factors increase risk by producing subtle brain damage. C. The apparent lack of gliosis in postmortem studies implicates in utero factors. D. As the prefrontal cortex matures, behavioral and cognitive sequelae of subtle structural deficits become manifest. E. All of the above, 13.3. With regard to the ventricular size in schizophrenia, which of the following statements is true? A. Patients with schizophrenia invariably demonstrate significant enlargement of the fourth ventricle only. B. Ventricular enlargement is a pathognomonic finding in schizophrenia. C. Ventricular changes in schizophrenia are likely to be specific for the pathophysiological processes underlying this disorder. D. All of the above E. None of the above, 13.4. All of the following lead to an increased risk of schizophrenia except A. having a deviant course of personality maturation and development B. having previously attempted suicide C. having a schizophrenic family member D. having a history of temporal lobe epilepsy E. having low levels of monoamine oxidase, type B, in blood platelets, 13.5. True statements about violence and schizophrenia include all of the following except A. Violence in a hospital setting can result from undiagnosed neuroleptic-induced acute akathisia. B. Patients with schizophrenia are more violent as a group than the general population. C. It is more difficult to prevent most schizophrenic homicides compared with the general population. D. Patients with disorganized schizophrenia are at much greater risk to commit violence than those with paranoid schizophrenia. E. Command hallucinations do not appear to play a particularly important role in violence.....
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