Mental Health NU160 Exam 3 2025/2026
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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A serious and potentially
fatal side effect with unstable vital signs, fever, confusion, muscle rigidity,
tremor, and incontinence
Type 1: Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maladaptive
behaviors and thoughts, ACTIONS, ACT OUT
Delusions, hallucinations, illusions, speech problems, bizarre behaviors,
agitation, catatonic behavior
Too much dopamine, brain size and structure normal
Response to antipsychotics is usually good
Type 2: Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lack of
adaptive mechanisms, THOUGHTS, DON'T ACT OUT
Anergia, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, flat affect, won't speak unless
spoken to
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,Too little dopamine, decreased blood flow to brain, increased size of
ventricles in brain, decrease in size of brain
Response to antipsychotics is usually poor
The inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life's
demands is - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔psychosis
Catatonia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disrupts how your brain works, disrupting how a
person processes and reacts to the world around them
Schizophrenia Subtype: Catatonic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔immobility or excessive
activity with no purpose, odd movements, rigid posture, echopraxia (mimics
movements of others), echolalia (echoes others' speech), may suffer from
malnutrition, dehydration, exhaustion, prognosis is fair
Schizophrenia Subtype: Disorganized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disordered thinking,
speech, and behavior, unable to perform ADL's, early onset, prognosis is
poor
Schizophrenia Subtype: Paranoid - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔at least one acute
episode of schizophrenia, is free of acute psychosis but has symptoms of
disorder, emotional changes, schizophrenia present for many years, time is
limited between acute episodes, prognosis is poor
hallucinations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔false sensory inputs with no external stimuli
delusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fixed false ideas that are not based in reality
illusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔false perceptions of real stimuli
agnosia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inability to recognize familiar objects or people
ideas of reference - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that people or the media are
talking about oneself
derealization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A loss of ego boundaries with an inability to
tell where one's body ends and the environment begins
An individual with schizophrenia that cannot set goals - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔negative symptom
Agranulocytosis (dangerously low WBC) can be caused by taking
antipsychotic medications and can lead to - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔infection
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Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A serious and potentially
fatal side effect with unstable vital signs, fever, confusion, muscle rigidity,
tremor, and incontinence
Type 1: Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Maladaptive
behaviors and thoughts, ACTIONS, ACT OUT
Delusions, hallucinations, illusions, speech problems, bizarre behaviors,
agitation, catatonic behavior
Too much dopamine, brain size and structure normal
Response to antipsychotics is usually good
Type 2: Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Lack of
adaptive mechanisms, THOUGHTS, DON'T ACT OUT
Anergia, anhedonia, apathy, avolition, flat affect, won't speak unless
spoken to
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,Too little dopamine, decreased blood flow to brain, increased size of
ventricles in brain, decrease in size of brain
Response to antipsychotics is usually poor
The inability to recognize reality, relate to others, and cope with life's
demands is - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔psychosis
Catatonia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disrupts how your brain works, disrupting how a
person processes and reacts to the world around them
Schizophrenia Subtype: Catatonic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔immobility or excessive
activity with no purpose, odd movements, rigid posture, echopraxia (mimics
movements of others), echolalia (echoes others' speech), may suffer from
malnutrition, dehydration, exhaustion, prognosis is fair
Schizophrenia Subtype: Disorganized - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔disordered thinking,
speech, and behavior, unable to perform ADL's, early onset, prognosis is
poor
Schizophrenia Subtype: Paranoid - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔at least one acute
episode of schizophrenia, is free of acute psychosis but has symptoms of
disorder, emotional changes, schizophrenia present for many years, time is
limited between acute episodes, prognosis is poor
hallucinations - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔false sensory inputs with no external stimuli
delusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔fixed false ideas that are not based in reality
illusions - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔false perceptions of real stimuli
agnosia - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔inability to recognize familiar objects or people
ideas of reference - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔The idea that people or the media are
talking about oneself
derealization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔A loss of ego boundaries with an inability to
tell where one's body ends and the environment begins
An individual with schizophrenia that cannot set goals - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔negative symptom
Agranulocytosis (dangerously low WBC) can be caused by taking
antipsychotic medications and can lead to - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔infection
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