PSYCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Delusional Disorder, Dementia Praecox, Emil Kraepelin
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Major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behavior. Faulty perception and attention: lack of emotional expressiveness. Inappropriate or flat emotions: disturbances in movement or behavior. Emil kraepelin (1878); dementia praecox or dementia of early onset: four subtypes. Eugene bleuler (1911): schizophrenia ( to split the mind : four subtypes. Associations (inability to think in a logical manner) Same symptoms as schizophrenia, but shorter duration: schizophreniform disorder. Symptom duration 1 month to 6 months: brief psychotic disorder. Symptom duration 1 day to 1 month. Often triggered by extreme stress, such as bereavement. Same symptoms as schizophrenia, plus a depressive or manic episode: schizoaffective disorder. Affects men slightly more often than women. Most common symptoms: hallucinations: hearing voices, delusions: other are out to get me. Diagnosed more frequently in african americans and hispanics: may reflect diagnostic biases, in a sample of 134,523 us veterans, african americans were 4x and.
