12.5 Key Terms

Schizophrenia

Positive symptoms

Hallucinations

Delusions

Catatonia

Negative symptoms

Flat affect

Avolition

Executive functions

Schizophreniform disorder

Brief psychotic disorder

Schizoaffective disorder

Delusional disorder

Prodromal phase

Active phase

Biological marker

Theory of mind

High expressed emotion (high EE)

Social selection hypothesis

Social causation hypothesis

Tardive dyskinesia

Atypical antipsychotics

Community care

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