PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Synaptic Pruning, Mood Disorder, Mutation
16 Jan 2019
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Chapter 15: schizophrenia, affective disorders, and anxiety disorders. These disorders are not attributed to one bad gene or one bad protein, it"s not because of apoptosis etc. network- wide, the brain is a bit different. There"s not one type of schizophrenia, mood disorder etc. where symptoms are exactly the same, but they are grouped together still. Mental disorder characterized by social withdrawal, disorganized [illogical, doesn"t make sense] thinking, abnormal speech, inability to understand reality. Gradual symptoms, start in young adulthood and don"t resolve, but 20% do quite well. Negative [emerge 1st]: absence of usual behaviors, i. e. social withdrawal, reduced emotional expression, poverty of speech and reduced motivation. Deficits in learning and memory, poor problem solving. Positive [3rd]: presence of hallucinations and delusions [contradict reality] Delusions of persecution (paranoid, think ppl wanna hurt em) Control - think they can control own or others" thoughts. Onset: usually male, most common to diagnose around 20yo, females in 40s bc menopause.
