PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Catatonia, Psych, Paranoid Schizophrenia
22 Dec 2016
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Schizophrenia is a brain disease that causes the person to experience signi cant breaks from reality, a lack of integration of thoughts and emotions and problems with attention and memory. Active phase people typically experience delusional thoughts, hallucinations, or disorganized patterns of thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Residual phase in which peoples predominant symptoms have disappeared or lessened considerably and they may simply be withdrawn, have trouble concentrating and generally lack motivation. Hallucinations alterations in perception, such that a person hears, sees, smells, feels, or tastes something that does not actually exist, except in the persons own mind. Delusions beliefs that are not based on reality (at least from the perspective of the persons general culture) Disorganized behaviour described the considerable dif culty people with schizophrenia have completing the tasks of everyday life (cooking, ones hygiene etc) Disorganized schizophrenia symptoms include thoughts, speech, emotional and behavioural that are poorly integrated and incoherent.
