BIOL 1260 Lecture 18: Schizophrenia
2 Dec 2016
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Experience loss of affect, disorganized thoughts, intense hallucinations life expectancy is 20-30 years less. Kraepelin: dementia praecox , bleuler: schizophrenia lack of mental connectiveness between ideas and emotions: 4 a s: loose associations, flat affect, ambivalence, autism clinical characterization. Negative symptoms: lack of normalcy: normal thought processes are disrupted, flat affect. Positive symptoms: added effect: presence of hallucinations and delusions. Can have any assortment of negative and positive symptoms thought process disorder. Circumstantiality: logical link preserved but progressive drifting away. Derailment: response initially topical but becomes obviously not related. Tangentiality: immediate loss of connection between question and patient"s response. Word salad: complete absence of a logical link: clanging diagnosis. Biology has never heard of the dsm may have a different cohort of symptoms that don"t present as typical. Paranoid schizophrenia invasive thoughts, threatening voices: often believe that family and friends are conspiring against them, often get better with treatment.
