Review for Breedlove Chapter on Schizophrenia

1. The disorder of paralytic dementia, characterized by delusions, grandiosity, and eventual dementia, was found to be caused by __________.

A) Syphilis

B) Weak character

C) Stress

D) A form of encephalitis

2. Which of these was not a symptom of schizophrenia identified by Bleuler?

A) Dissociative thinking

B) Visual hallucinations

C) Emotional disturbance

D) Delusion

3. All of the following are Negative Symptoms of schizophrenia except ____________

A) Alogia

B) Catatonia

C) Anhedonia

D) Hallucinations

4. What is the most significant anatomical difference in brains of the patients with schizophrenia (even identical twins) when compared to controls?

A) More grey matter

B) Smaller corpus callosum

C) Larger ventricles

D) Missing areas of prefrontal cortex

5. According to Breedlove, what is the percentage of identical (monozygotic) twins who both develop schizophrenia if one develops schizophrenia?

A) Less than 10%

B) About 25%

C) About 50%

D) About 75%

E) Virtually all of them.

6. What is the rate of concordance for schizophrenia for dizygotic twins?

A) The same as for total strangers

B) Less than 20%

C) Between 20 and 50%

D) Over 50%

7. When only one of a pair of identical twins develops schizophrenia, which of these is not a likely characteristic of that twin (according to Breedlove)?

A) Lower birth weight

B) More submissiveness as a child

C) More sensitive as a child

D) Greater creativity

8. Which person is at the highest risk for developing schizophrenia?

A) Someone who lives in a rural area
B) Someone who lives in a small city
C) Someone who lives in a big city
D) It really depends on the age at which a person moves to a city

9. A lobotomy is the surgical separation of a portion of the ______________from the rest of the brain.

A) Frontal lobes

B) Hippocampus

C) Corpus collosum

D) Temporal cortex

10. The drug that was discovered in 1954 that reduced the positive symptoms of schizophrenia is ___________.

A) Atypical neuroleptics

B) Chlorpromazine

C) L-dopa

D) Tardive dyskinesia

11. It has been proposed that people with schizophrenia suffer from either an excess of release or an excess or receptors of what neurotransmitter?

A) Melatonin

B) Serotonin

C) Dopamine

D) Endorphin

12. What did the study of people in Vermont and Maine with schizophrenia reveal as a critical factor in recovery?

A) Regular use of medication

B) Frequent medical follow-up monitoring

C) A safe institutional environment

D) Reintegration into society