CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bipolar Disorder, Thalamus, Toxoplasma Gondii
14 May 2018
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Can function/malfunction in such a way that the hallucinations seem real
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Most severe psychiatric illness
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Onset is usually during adolescence
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A debilitating and unforgiving disease characterized by severe psychotic breaks
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Schizophrenia is a neurological disease that creates confusion between what is real and what is
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Splitting from reality
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Not split personality
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Schizophrenia
Having little energy or interest in life.
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Showing little or no emotion.
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Avoiding contact with others.
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With negative symptoms, it seems as if something is missing from the person, such as:
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Negative Symptoms- depression
Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real).
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Delusions (beliefs that aren’t based on fact).
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Talking to oneself.
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Bizarre mannerisms or facial expressions.
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Being obsessed with something, such as religion.
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Laughter at odd times.
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Positive symptoms are behaviors that should not normally be present, such as:
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Feeling depressed.
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These behaviors are usually harmless.
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Faulty neural connections
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Positive Symptoms
“Positive” and “Negative” Symptoms- added to or taken away
Not uncommon
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Affects 1 in 100 individuals
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Men 18
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Women 25 (some protection from higher levels of estrogen)
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Early symptoms (warning signs) are often evident in childhood
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Natural peak of dopamine among adolescence fuels the onset (freight train- coming but you
don’t know when)
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Average age of onset:
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Onset of Schizophrenia
Over 90% of the time schizophrenia ends with hospitalization
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Immediate control is needed
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Hospitalization by age group
Gradual (more common in children or young teens)
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Acute Psychotic Episode (more common in adolescents or adults)
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Onset
No recovery is typical
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Progressively worse
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Most individuals with schizophrenia have an increasing split from reality
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Symptoms get gradually worse
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Individuals may have one episode
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Schizophrenic Episodes
A small percentage of young children are diagnosed with Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia
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Jani Video
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Children with Schizophrenia
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