NURS 451: SCHIZOPHRENIA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE GRADED A++ 2025/2026

NURS 451: SCHIZOPHRENIA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED UPDATE GRADED A++ 2025/2026 Terms in this set (36) schnizophrenia Brain disease that affects a person's thinking, language, emotion, social behavior, and ability to perceive reality accurately schizophreniform A form of schizophrenia that has all of the same symptoms but has not met timing diagnosis criteria schizoaffective schizophrenia + mood disorder erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed, and unspecified What delusions are associated with delusion disorder? 1) DELUSIONS 2) HALLUCINATIONS 3) DISORGANIZED SPEECH 4) Disorganized or catatonic behavior 5) Negative symptoms Diagnostic symptoms for schizophrenia two or more symptoms for one month What is the timing diagnostic for schizophrenia? Diagnosed between 18-25 for males and 25-35 for women When is schizophrenia usually diagnosed for men and women? substance abuse, nicotine abuse, depression, anxiety disorders, psychosis, medical comorbidities Co-morbidities associated with schizophrenia obesity, dyslipidemia, glucose dysregulation, type II diabetes, CVD What medical co-morbidities are often found with schizophrenia? Dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, brain derived neurotrophic factor What neurobiochemicals are associated with schizophrenia? Mesocortical: negative symptoms Nigrostriatal: EPS Mesolimbic: positive symptoms Tuberinfundibular: inhibits prolactin What pathways of the brain are responsible for each set of schizophrenia symptoms? Structural cerebral abnormalities, structural grey matter abnormalities, and atrophy in neurophil region What neuroanatomical changes occur in schizophrenia? Neurobiochemicals, neuroanatomical, neurocircuitry deficits, and brain metabolism dysfunction, genetics, and complications during birth What is within the biological domain that can contribute to schizophrenia? Cognitive dissonance: period of acute psychosis and response to medication Insight: 6-12 months post-diagnosis and learning to control symptoms Cognitive Consistency: Patient's learn how to meet their own needs Ordinariness: achieving full independence Psychological domain stages of schizophrenia socially awkward, lonely, symbolic, sexual, anxiety, indications of thought disorders, concentration deteriorates Prodromal symptoms of schizophrenia Acute phase: client safety and medical stabilization Stabilization: 6-18 months after acute psychosis; adhering to meds, understanding the disorder, maintain sleep, reducing alcohol/drugs, stay active, participate in psychoeducational activity Maintenance: symptoms less severe and targeting negative symptoms Course of illness of schizophrenia