PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Schizophrenia, Auditory Hallucination, Catatonia
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Patients often have a combination of different types of symptoms. There are several broad categories of symptoms that are characteristics of schizophrenia. These symptoms are described as either being positive, negative, or catatonic behaviour. Positive symptoms --> behaviours that increase in someone with schizophrenia. Negative symptoms --> behaviours that decrease in someone with schizophrenia. Catatonic behaviour --> consist of movement behaviours that an individual exhibits which are not in response to any even in the environment. Any patient may experience only some of these symptoms, and the severity of symptoms varies from each case. Schizophrenic thinking is characterized by loose associations. The individual"s train of thought may consist of ideas that are often only loosely related to each other. Schizophrenic speech may be vague and abstract. What happened was the patients started making associations with the word fruit and trailed off from his original intent. A belief that is irrational, or unsupported by external evidence.
