Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of schizophrenia?
A. Third person auditory hallucinationsB. Inappropriate emotions
C. Long stretches of mood changes
D. Formal thought disorder
The Answer is. C. (Long
stretches of mood changes)
Long stretches of mood
changes are found in affective disorders, e.g., mania and depression.
Clinical features of schizophrenia
include the following:
• Affective disturbance:
o Emotional blunting
o Apathy
o Anhedonia (inability to
experience pleasure)
• Disorder of motor behavior
• Disorder of perception
• Hallucination (mainly auditory and
sometime visual hallucination)
o Third-person hallucination
• Primary delusion (characteristic
of schizophrenia)
• Secondary delusions (not
diagnostic of schizophrenia). (Examples of secondary delusion are delusion of
persecution, delusion of References, and delusion of grandeur.)
• Ambivalence (severe inability to
decide for or against)
• Autistic thinking
• Thought block
• Neologism
