NEUR 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Auditory Hallucination, Psychotic Break, Dissociative Identity Disorder
20 Apr 2016
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Psychoses are a group of psychological disorders in which patients experience a loss of. Schizophrenia contact with reality: from the greek for psyche (mind/soul) and -osis (abnormal condition). Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder (probably a group of disorders) which produces disturbances in: perception of reality, interpersonal relations, social integration, cognition, mood. Affects 1 in 100 people (~300 000 canadians): highly comorbid with depression, anxiety, and/or substance abuse, 70-80% of affected individuals are unemployed. Cost of care is staggering at ~ billion per year. The condition historically known simply as madness or lunacy likely corresponds to what we now call schizophrenia. Emil kraeplin (1856-1926) was the first to thoroughly define the symptoms of schizophrenia: he called it dementia praecox premature dementia based onits progressive nature and appearance in late adolescence. This reference to a split mind has lead to the common misconception that it is the same as a dissociative identity disorder.
