LearningCurve Module 51

While researchers have discovered that there are an excessive number of receptor sites for _____ in schizophrenia patients' brains, it is not the only neurotransmitter involved in the disorder.

dopamine

Chronic schizophrenia is also known as _____ schizophrenia.

process

Marcus is a young male recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. His symptoms, however, developed over a long period of time. According to the research available on schizophrenia, what are the chances that he will recover?

Not good; the slow progression of symptom development suggests he will probably never fully recover.

Michael complains that threatening voices are constantly telling him he is so evil he should kill himself. Michael is experiencing:

hallucinations.

Jared has not read the chapter on psychological disorders, so he misunderstands some basic facts. For example, he believes that schizophrenia refers to a multiple personality split, rather than a:

split from reality.

Schizophrenia is an example of a(n) _____ disorder.

psychotic

Schizophrenia is to _____ disorder as phobia is to _____ disorder.

psychotic; anxiety

Spencer has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. His parents have a difficult time understanding him because his speech is fragmented and bizarre. He jumps from one idea to another, sometimes within sentences, creating a word _____.

salad