PSYC3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Autism Spectrum, Dementia Praecox, Schizoaffective Disorder
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Kraepelin (1899) distinguished dementia praecox, manic depressive psychosis and paranoia as mental disorders, bleuler (1911) coined the term schizophrenia, disturbances of affect, ambivalence, associations and autism as its symptoms. People with the disorder are dangers, that they have split personalities (only split thinking) Dsm 5 criteria: characteristic symptoms (two or more during one month and at least one needs to be 1, 2, or 3, delusions, hallucinations, disorganised speech (frequent derailment or incoherence, grossly disorganised or catatonic behaviour, negative symptoms. Positive symptoms (excess behaviours) delusions, hallucinations, loose associations, disorganised behaviour. Negative symptoms (deficits in behaviour) flat affect, apathy, social withdrawal, poor attention. Delusion misrepresentation of reality perceptual and visual. Hallucinations (perceptual) percept like experience occurring in the absence of appropriate stimulus and not under voluntary control. Type i schizophrenia sudden onset, normal intellect, no brain damage, no negative symptoms (predominance of positive symptoms), good drug response type ii slower onset, intellectual deterioration, brain abnormality, prominent negative symptoms, poor drug response.
