Blog

Chronic feelings of emptiness:

Is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances:

Eye-tracking deficits are found in roughly 10% of research samples not distinguished by schizophrenia or a family history of psychosis.  Based on one study in your text, what appears to be the prevalence of eye-tracking deficits among schizophrenics?  

Thorazine, Mellaril, Haldol and other conventional antipsychotic neuroleptics are all:

Bill Smith has maintained the delusion that his father is still alive despite having witnessed his death. He has only experienced this psychotic symptom while severely depressed. Given this information, which of the following appears to represent the best diagnosis for this man?

Requires excessive admiration:

Lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others:

Which of the following is not a negative psychotic symptom?  

Assume someone has an adult identical twin sibling who was diagnosed with schizophrenia by age 20.  What is your estimate of the risk that this individual will as well be diagnosed with schizophrenia? 

Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms: