PSY BEH 102C Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Protective Factor, Vocational Rehabilitation, Twin Study
1 Apr 2017
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Gross departure from reality, which may include: hallucinations, delusions. A pervasive type of psychosis characterized by disturbed thought, emotion, behavior. Positive symptoms active manifestations of abnormal behavior distortions or exaggerations of normal behavior delusions: the basic feature of madness: gross misrepresentations of reality. Delusions of persecution hallucinations: experience sensory events without input, can involve all senses, most common: auditory, spect studies. Part of the brain most active during auditory hallucinations. Bronca"s area, involved in speech production (not comprehension: hence the voices are in your head, not input. Avolition: lack of initiation or persistence. Alogia: absence of speech, unable to find words. Nature of disorganized speech: cognitive slippage. Going off on a tangent: loose associations. May be considered a psychotic spectrum disorder or when occurring with schizophrenia it could be a symptom. Psychotic symptoms that last between 1-6 months (more than 6 is schizophrenia)
