PSYC 2030U Lecture 5: Chapter 13 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders
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Chapter 13 schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Catatonia alternating immobility and excited agitation. Associative splitting of basic functions of personality: cognition, emotion, and perception. Not shared by all people who are given this diagnosis. Positive and negative symptoms and disorganized symptoms. Two or more positive negative or disorganized symptoms must be present. 50-70% of schizophrenics experience hallucinations, delusions or both. Cotard"s syndrome part of body has changed in some impossible way. Capgras syndrome replaced by a double. N400 waves target words that were inconsistent. Tend to experience hallucinations when they are unoccupied or restricted from sensory input. Maybe listening to own thoughts and cannot recognize difference. Auditory verbal hallucinations: greater left primary auditory cortex, right middle temporal gyrus. Emotional and social withdrawal, apathy, poverty of thought or speech. Without an act of willing choosing or deciding. Little interest in performing most basic functions. More associated with a poor outcome than other symptoms.
