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Schizophrenia

1. Prominent psychotic symptoms, with abnormalities in one or more of five domains: delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, grossly disorganized behavior, and negative symptoms

2. Positive symptoms: excess or distortion of normal functions, e.g., delusions and hallucinations

3. Negative symptoms: decrease or loss of normal functions, e.g., blunted affect, lack of fluidity of speech, avolition, alogia, anhedonia, asociality

4. Delusions: fixed beliefs unamenable to change: persecutory, referential, grandiose, erotomanic, nihilistic, somatic

5. Hallucinations: sensory modalities without external stimulus: auditory, tactile

6. Disorganized thinking: formal thought disorder inferred from speech

7. Grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behavior: range of manifestations: silliness to unpredictable agitation; catatonia

8. Mnemonic for symptoms: DELUSIONS HERALD SCHIZOPHRENIA BAD NEWS: The initials DHSBN stand for symptoms domains: Delusions, Hallucinations, Speech-disorganized, Behavior- disorganized, Negative symptoms

QUESTION:
Negative or deficit symptoms of schizophrenia include all of the following, except:

ANSWERS:
A. auditory hallucinations.
B. impoverished thought or speech.
C. low motivation.
D. social isolation.

RATIONALE:
A is correct, as hallucinations are a positive or excess symptom; Answers B, C, and D are incorrect, as they all depict negative or deficit symptoms.

Source - http://www.taylorstudymethod.com/blog/schizophrenia-dsm-5-eppp-lecture-video-by-taylor-study-method/

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