CHYS 2P35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antipsychotic, Clozapine, Toxoplasma Gondii

• School: Brock University
• Department: Child and Youth Studies
• Course: CHYS 2P35
• Professor: John Mc Namara

Document Summary

The delusion makes everything you see real; similar to just watching your professor talking: difficulty choosing which was real and which isn"t. Not the same as split personality rare. 1 in 100 less rare than autism. Negative: symptoms that are taken away from the person what keeps the person down. 1 in 100 not as common as adhd but more common than autism. Latest onset of a mental illness: average onset is 18 for males, average onset is 25 for males protection from estrogen build-up that is more prevalent in women than men. Most people"s onset are acute, and woke up the next day, and it was there. Massive peak in hospitalization for men who are dealing with schizophrenia: hospitalization is one of the key treatments. You can see it coming often doesn"t look like schizophrenia. Acute psychotic episode: you wake up and there"s a catastrophic neurological breakdown.