CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mania, Toxoplasma Gondii, Valproate

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Schizophrenia: split is from reality not another personality. A debilitating and unforgiving disease characterized by severe psychotic breaks. Schizophrenia is a neurological disease that creates confusion between what is real and what is not. With negative symptoms, it seems as if something is missing from the person, such as: negative symptoms look like depression. Positive symptoms are behaviours that should not normally be present, such as: Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real). Used to think 1 in 400 had autism, so this is more common. Prevalence rates are really high but nothing going into it. Women 25 (some protection from higher levels of estrogen) Early symptoms (warning signs) are often evident in childhood. Gradual (more common in children or young teens) Can see it early, but not like schizophrenia. See something going on, not the acute hallucinations, but other diagnoses going on adhd, changed to depression to bipolar, then to schizophrenia) or.

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