PSY340H5 Lecture 9: Schizophrenia
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Psy340 lecture 9 being out of touch with reality, it is just acting abnormally. Dsm iv has different types of schizophrenia, but dsm v just has schizophrenia and has a list of symptoms: another psychotic disorder autism. Sometimes it results in institutionalization: there are two manifestations of schizophrenia. Chronic: long period of time: most forms of schizophrenia are acute they occur for a short period of time and they go away. 221, 000 canadians in 1996: 90% of people with acute schizophrenia can be treated, now: 350 000 canadians. 1% prevalence in a population of 3. 5 million. A group of related disorders: dsm v left these on the dsm, they look like schizophrenia but aren"t quite there. Key feature: psychotic symptoms profound disturbance in thought, reality testing and affect: two key symptoms: delusions and hallucinations, other symptoms: disorganized speech (in autism - a lack of speech) Autism onset is right at infancy but schizophrenia in adolescence and young adulthood.
