By:
Alexandra Fratzke
Armyn Padilla
Cecilia Roque
Sophia Oh
What is schizophrenia?
Long-term mental disorder involving a breakdown in thought,
emotion and behavior which then leads to faulty perception,
inappropriate actions and feelings.
Withdrawal from reality and personal relationships into
delusions
means “split mind”
Affects everyone- both women and men.
With men, it strikes earlier, more severely, slightly more
often than women.
Humanity’s most dreaded disorders
1 in 100 people will develop schizophrenia
3 in West Hall upstairs building
30 in this entire school (only students)
Subtypes of Schizophrenia
Paranoid: preoccupation with delusions or hallucination,
often with themes or persecution
Disorganized: disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or
inappropriate emotion
Catatonic: immobility (or excessive, purposeless
movement), extreme negativism, and/or parrot like
repeating of another’s speech or movements
Undifferentiated: impaired speech, emotions and behavior
Residual: withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions
have disappeared
Paranoid schizophrenia
Symptoms
Auditory hallucinations or where you here sounds
that nobody else can hear, usually voices.
Delusions or that you feel you and or loved ones
are constantly threatened to harm.
None of the following is prominent: disorganized
speech, catatonic behavior, flat/inappropriate affect
With paranoid schizophrenia you are less likely to be
troubled with mood, concentration, and attention
problems
Paranoid schizophrenia
Causes
Brain Disorders
Genetics
Environmental Factors
Disorganized Schizophrenia Symptoms
Disorganized thinking
causes illogical nonsensical thought patters, noticeable in the
way the affected person talks, they cant stay on track in a
conversation, jumps from one unrelated idea to another so its
impossible to understand what they're trying to say
Disorganized behavior
causes severe problems in ability to function in daily life such
as bathing, dressing or making meals. Common issues include
confronting others without a logical reason, wearing many
layers of clothing on a hot day and having a very
flat/inappropriate affect
lack emotional expression, has a blank face and doesn't make
eye contact or use common body language.
Emotions inappropriate to the situation are also common such
as acting funny or laughing loudly at a serious event.
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Causes:
genetics and environment both play a role
problems with certain neurotransmitters may
contribute
abnormality of the fifth chromosome
Treatment:
hospitalization is often necessary
allows initiation of medication under close
supervision
once the most troubling symptoms are controlled
by medication, the person often does not require
hospitalization
Catatonic Symptoms
Physical immobility: unable to move or speak, or you may stare,
hold your body in a rigid position and seem to be unaware of your
surroundings, waxy flexibility
Excessive mobility: move in an excited manner that appears to
have no purpose
Extreme resistance: may not respond to instructions, may resist
any attempt to be moved or may not speak at all.
Peculiar movements: inappropriate or unusual postures, grimace
for long periods or use strange mannerisms. You may also
mechanically repeat certain behaviors
Mimicking speech or movement: repeatedly say a word just spoken
by someone else
Catatonic Schizophrenia Causes
Genetics / Environment
Mood disorders, such as depression and
bipolar disorder, and medical conditions
that affect the central nervous system
Problems with certain naturally occurring
brain chemicals called neurotransmitters
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia Symptoms
Psychotic symptoms are present, but the criteria for paranoid,
disorganized, or catatonic types have not been met.
Symptoms are not sufficiently formed or specific enough to
classify into paranoid, catatonic, or disorganized
schizophrenia.
The symptoms can fluctuate and change in intensity at
different points in time.
This is why it is difficult to specifically classify this type of
schizophrenia.
Other Relevant Information: Diagnosis for this type of
schizophrenia could also describe the mixed clinical
syndrome.
Undifferentiated Schizophrenia Causes
Genetics
People with undifferentiated schizophrenia are 10x more
likely to have relatives with undifferentiated schizophrenia.
Migration
Separation from family and the inability to adjust to new
places may cause undifferentiated schizophrenia.
Virus
Damage to the hippocampus can cause undifferentiated
schizophrenia because it attacks the ability to process
senses.
Examples: Herpes Simplex, Endogenous Retroviruses.
Residual Schizophrenia
Symptoms
Symptoms of other Schizophrenia types are
present, but in low intensity.
Withdrawal after hallucinations and delusions
have disappeared.
Other Relevant Information: People with this
schizophrenia may be easily irritated,
disinterested, and may stop interacting with
people.
Residual Schizophrenia Causes
Genetics
Environmental Factors
Changes in your brain
Disorganized, Paranoid, Undifferentiated, or
Catatonic Schizophrenia