What was the first modern antipsychotic?
THORAZINE
What treatment for schizophrenia was discovered as a method for slaughtering livestock.
ECT ( Electroconvulsuve Therapy)
What widely used treatment for schizophrenia was eventually revealed to be ineffective, but still exists in an improved way as a rare treatment?
Frontal Lobotomies
What is the treatment paradigm that followed deinstitutionalization in the last half of te 20th century?
Community care
What officually recognized mental disorder often features symptoms of schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder ?
SZA Schizo-affective disorder
What are the typical requirements for someone with psychotic symptoms to be certified involutarily in a psychiatric hospital?
Risk of harm to self and others.
When someone affected by schizophrenia commits a criminal offence, what is the major consideration for not being found criminally responsible.
Inability to form intent/ inability to know what they did is wrong
When someone affected with schizophrenia percieves that events and communications are directed towards or are about them, what is the term for what they are experiencing?
Ideas/ delusions of reference
When someone affected with schizophrenia percieves that people are reading their thoughts or that they can read the thoughts of others, what is the term for what they are experiencing?
Thought broadcasting
If someone has a false idea that they think is real, believe with certainty, and lack insight into the fact it is caused by their illness, what are they experiencing?
Delusion
What is the term for laughter suspected to be caused by mental illness that has no other apparent or justifiable cause?
Paradoxical laughter