Schizophrenia key terms

• Schizophrenia 


  a psychotic disorder where individuals fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy
• Positive Symtoms

  The presence of a behaviour that is an addition to normal experience
• Negative symptoms 


  The absence or loss of a behaviour you would normally accept
• Hallucinations


  Unreal perceptions of the environment
• Delusions

  bizzare beliefs that are not real
• Poverty of speech


  Speech lacks fluidity involves reduced frequency and quality
• Avolition


  Reduction in goal directed behaviour
• Co Morbidity 


  The occurrence of two disorders together
• System overlap


  Two or more conditions share the same symptoms
• Affective flattening 


  a reduction in a range of facial expression emotional expression eye contact and body language
• Catatonia


  Abnormality of movement and disturbance of behaviour