HLTHAGE 1CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hearing Voices Network, Delusional Disorder, Bipolar Disorder
31 Jan 2020
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Schizophrenia, types of bipolar disorder, delusional disorder: schizophrenia society of ontario, disease (implies specific cause/course/treatments) of the brain. Involves loss of contact with reality, making it hard for a person to distinguish btw whats real and whats not: medical model. World health organzation definition of schizophrenia: severe mental disorder, characterized by disruptoions of thinking, affecting language, perception, and the sense of self (heavily contested, more complicated) Why: false beliefs are not delusional (ex earth is flat, sometimes fixed beliefs are not provable (ex. Religious beliefs: not all problematic beliefs are false - sometime cia really is watching. Negative symptoms: (long term: chronic affective and emotional disturbances, blunted affect (monotone voice, no facial expression, anhedonia (inability to experience pleasure/ pleasure is diminished, may expand to physical, ex. Taste, touch: asociality (no connection to others, avolition (lack of will power, day to day tasks, doesn"t want to make food shower , alogia (severely reduced speech, poverty of content)
