Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Mood Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Katerina Rnic

Document Summary

Over time, people tend to have less schizoid symptoms; we think this might be due to normal brain decline. All people will have less dopamine activity for example. Some people do get a lot better, not going in and out of hospital; they are usually very responsive to treatment. 35% when not in psychotic episode, they are doing quite well. 10% even between episode functioning is poor. Another 35% have the worst prognosis; each episode can get worse and worse and worse. *you really need to be mindful of suicide risk. Rare, but people can develop schizophrenia at a later age (usually female, and will usually be psychotic, not negative) Males have a worst pre morbid adjustment (before they even develop the first psychotic episode, they are functioning below what you would expect), greater negative symptoms, greater cognitive impairment. Mood disorders with psychotic features (depression may experience commonly auditory hallucinations over other hallucinations or delusions)