PSY 3171 Lecture 7: PSY3171 - Lecture 7 pt 1

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Heterogeneity: tendency for people with disorder to differ from each other in symptoms, family, personal background, response to treatment, and ability to live outside of hospital. Normally 1% in north america and europe: 300,000 in canada, changes depends on diagnosis. Age of onset 15-25 years old: positive symptoms. Men and women have equal risk (depends on life span, younger ages males are higher, older ages women are higher) In canada believe it could due to our northern placement, lack of vitamin d while in utero. Although it is normally equal men tend to have it worse then females. Positive (psychotic symptoms: delusions, hallucination, thought and speech disorder, catatonic behavior (hard time moving your limbs) Occur while a person is awake and conscious: sight, sound, smell, touch things that are not present, auditory hallucinations are the most common, most common narrating what someone is doing. Implausible beliefs that persist despite reliable evidence to the contrary.