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1. What is psychosis?:
Answer a severe mental disorder paired with altered cognition,altered perception, and/or
an impaired ability to determine what is or is not real.
2. Etiology of Psychosis:
Answer
>Underlying biologic causes
-Toxic psychosis
-Underlying and untreated medical issue . . . Delirium
-Neurocognitive disorders
...Dementia
...HIV
...Vascular
>Medical illness
>Toxins, drugs and medications
3. Schizophrenia:
Answer
A psychotic disorder involving distortions in thoughts, perceptions, and/or emotions.
Affects neurotransmitters
4. Causes of Schizophrenia:
Answer
Outcomes related to:
>Later onset, premorbid functioning
>Age, gender
>Subtype
>Fetal exposure to disease and trauma
>Marital status, reproduction, mortality
>Socioeconomic class
>Culture, geography, seasonal influences
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