HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Eugen Bleuler
19 Dec 2016
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Chronic affective and emotional disturbances: blunted affect. Means that person might not be as expressive: anhedonia. Instructions were a common thing people heard: hare: recency hypothesis: explains 19th c. epidemic" a rarity of previous descriptions. Based on judgment: no tests (like a blood test) to really determine, no confirmation process. Kraepelin: what if its not diseases, what if theyre just symptoms. Bleuler: didn"t always start in adolescence nor result in dementia- proposed schizophrenia (split mental associations) Elimination of subtypes (paranoid, catatonic, etc )-> low reliability, poor validity (predicting outcome) Now a person must have at least one positive symptom. Combines positive symptoms of schizophrenia with mood disturbances (mania or depression) People described as being prone to isolation, loneliness. Wide symptomology means substantial misdiagnosis, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and bpd. Schizophrenia, or rather its symptoms, are reportedly found in all cultures across the world: who incidence: 1%.
