schizophrenia
Across
- 2. describes a break or disconnection from reality
- 4. inherited factors
- 6. suggests that excess dopamine in the brain contributes to positive symptoms
- 9. lack of emotional expression
- 10. behaviours the person is exhibiting in addition to normal behaviours
- 12. talking therapy that helps treat schizophrenia
- 13. patient enters a trance-like state where they don’t move at all and don’t respond to others
- 17. chemicals which allow the transmission of signals from one neuron to the next across synapses
- 18. lack of motivation
- 19. schizophrenia is linked to this mental illness that results in a low mood
- 20. false beliefs that conflict reality
Down
- 1. abnormal levels of these in the schizophrenic brain
- 3. the type of drugs that treat schizophrenia
- 5. a typical antipsychotic that blocks dopamine receptors
- 7. individual doesn't react appropriately to pleasurable experiences
- 8. seeing or hearing things that don't exist
- 11. the occurrence of two conditions together
- 14. poverty of speech
- 15. level of emotion expressed towards a patient by their carer (abbreviated)
- 16. absence of normal behaviours