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A nurse reads in a patient's chart that the patient has a condition caused by monosomy X.What can the nurse conclude about this patient?


Definitions:

Schizoaffective Disorder

A mental health condition characterized by a combination of schizophrenia symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, and mood disorder features, such as depression or mania.

Negative Symptoms

In the context of psychiatric conditions, particularly schizophrenia, symptoms that reflect decreases or deficits in normal emotional responses, motivation, or social behaviors.

Profoundly Depressed

A state of severe depression where an individual feels extreme despondency and incapacity.

Prodromal Phase

A stage that precedes the onset of a disease, characterized by early symptoms that might indicate the start of a disease before specific symptoms occur.

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