CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fluoxetine, Thalamus, Psychoeducation
15 Jan 2016
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Onset is usually during adolescence, catastrophic to family unit system psychotic breaks. A debilitating and unforgiving disease characterized by severe. Schizophrenia is a neurological disease that creates confusion between what is real and what is not average onset in late adolescence (19/20) With negative symptoms, it seems as if something is missing from the person, such as: Positive symptoms are behaviours that should not normally be present, such as: Hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real). Women 25 (some protection from higher levels of estrogen) protective factor. Early symptoms (warning signs) are often evident in childhood. Most individuals with schizophrenia have an increasing split from reality. A small percentage of young children are diagnosed with childhood- Must consider normal development sometimes not as easy to see because having an imaginary friend is typical for kids. Clinicians look for a more persistent pattern of such behaviours. The negative symptoms are serious predictors more interested in gradual onset,
